Uptown Girl Quotes & Sayings

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about. — Lydia Lunch

I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with. — Scott Baio

Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority. — Richard Carlson

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling. — Mira Bartok

I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called "Ragdoll," which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy. — Billy Joel

I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!' — Alice Walker

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor. — Will Rogers

What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy. — Andre Dubus

When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed. — Stephen King

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger. — Nicholas Winton

From youth, I have been accustomed to direct the eyes of my spirit inwards rather than outwards; and hence it is very natural, that, to a certain extent, I should be acquainted with man, while of men I have not the smallest knowledge. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I took your name when I took those vows
I meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now. — The Band Perry

Never hate anything or anyone! Anything or anyone that you hate is etched on your heart; if you want to let go you cannot hate — JR

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women. — Cate Blanchett

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career. — Rupert Holmes