Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bianca Jagger

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

Bernadette Devlin

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

Alanis Morissette

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

Ben Elton

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

David Bowie

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

P. J. O'Rourke

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

Alec Baldwin

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

Adam Schiff

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Beeban Kidron

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

Beck

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Beck

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

Beck

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Beck

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Blaise Pascal

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Elizabeth Bowen

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

Dominic Monaghan

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

David Nicholls

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Colin Farrell

Sometimes I have experienced at the start of a film you're very excited and enthusiastic and you've done all your preparation internally and externally and you start the film and it's all go..... Then your attention goes somewhere else. Your energy goes into telling the story, so you don't have the same amount of energy to be objective, and that's okay because sometimes you become a subject of the story and you're inside it so much that you don't need to keep on looking on the outside.

Alex Turner

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

David Halberstam

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

David Lee Roth

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.