Sting Quotes - Page 5

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

I never saw no military solution That didn't always end up as something worse

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?

If you love someone, set them free.

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one side.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.