Son Quotes - Page 81

Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable.

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the group. They belong to everyone.

A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

The only person I have hurt is myself.

Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.

When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

Adrenaline is the reason I do what I do.

Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth.

The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life.

The reason a person is a republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that's science - that's neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.