P. J. Harvey Quotations

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.

The one thing we preach is mental toughness and we showed it tonight.

We're in a budget crunch. Like all state agencies, our budget was cut by 5 percent for 2006-2007. We recently had to notify 39 park employees across the state that their positions were being eliminated.

. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

While liver disease appears in his history, it does not appear that it has anything to do with his cause of death.

When we closed there was a general feeling of shock and dismay. But people will be pleased with what has happened. I'm looking forward to watching this sleeping giant wake up.

What happens with these guys (organizations) is it's very hard to find a successor. When the charismatic founder goes away, who's going to replace him?

Throughout their history, the Nubians played a variety of roles with the Egyptians. They were colonized for a time and for a while were quite powerful in relationship to the Egyptians. And for 100 years, they ruled over them.

We know what he can do now. It's been a long two days for Jake, but it was worth it.

Versus is a word that perfectly captures the essence of our brand. It is immediate shorthand for competition.

We've got many weapons. You've got to pick your poison, whether you want it out at the perimeter or in the paint.

We have so many young people that are talented, but they haven't had the opportunity to compete against that level of competition.

We want the building to show up again in the skyline.

We did not have enough effort at the defensive end of the floor in the first half. We did a better job in the second half. We had to do a better job defensively. They were rotating and their kids were running hard through the screens. (Nolan) does a nice job running their sets.

There is a problem with (work) encroaching on home life, if the individual does not manage it and set the boundaries,

There are four games left so it still could be anybody's league. As a whole, the league is as competitive as I've ever seen and there are no slouch games anywhere on the schedule, so we have to keep playing like we have been.

We've been improving OLN consistently and relatively under the radar for the past couple of years.

We're amazed to have been nominated for anything other than the 'tallest double act' award because our combined height is 12 ft 6 in.

We hope to rebuild the fishery. We want to see a sustainable population of fish.

There is a little pressure there, especially it being held in Canada with the media requests and all that kind of stuff. I think (Team Canada coach) Brent Sutter will do a good job deflecting some of that away from him.

What we did not address in TOPOFF3 was the question of panic, ... If the public thinks they're exposed to a life-threatening agent, they're not going to stand in long, orderly lines and wait to go through narrow doors to get their pills or shots. They're going to stampede.

The provision of a smart phone in no way requires users to either view or respond to business related emails or calls out of office hours,

When I asked if you knew where the money came from,

We're competing against every team in the conference. We're just not finishing. Our kids played hard, but (the Falcons) are well-coached.

Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and acceptance by God through my obedience to God.

So it's really doing the necessary groundwork for flying an orbiting space station.

So I am staying in this colt this time. I'll keep a share because I do not want a repeat of what happened last time.

She's the one I never get on for swinging at the rise ball. Anyone other than her and I chew them out.

She's a very, very smart woman, but she was playing rope-a-dope a little bit today with the commission,

Somebody is going to get hurt. Somebody's going to get shot over these town ordinances. It's not fun getting shot at. When are you going to do something about it?

She had duct tape around her head and duct tape marks on her eyes and face. Her left eye was bulging, and we observed duct tape on her hands.

She's actually a pretty even-keeled kid. Nothing seems to faze her. She's not awestruck by anything. She's actually more of a calming influence than anybody on the team, and she's just a kid.

Obviously we're tickled to death they're going to stay.

Museums covet his works. They're hard to find. They're expensive when they do find them. And they're often an embarrassing gap in the canon for museums that don't have them.

No other Australian retailer ever has decided to take on the world. We're going to take on the world.

Now, that's basically the same statement that was reported in the newspapers.

Obviously, those types of games create character. To some extent we're still trying to find our identity, and those kinds of things will build team camaraderie as well as character.

Nothing is ever boring when you get them interested.

My understanding is it is more aesthetically pleasing as a parking lot.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

I was surprised. You can tell it's a new board. Five years ago this would never have come up.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

I was pretty confident because I'd wrestled him before, and beat him, so I had the mental edge.

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

I can honestly tell you that soldiers' ability to focus on the mission is helped immeasurably when they know their families at home are doing well.

I am from the hood; I never had nothing. Now that I have something, I must give back,

But we are thrilled to be where we are now. Our real estate people liked the proximity to the mall.

I had one friend who lived in New Orleans, so I had a way to personally relate to everyone who was in the situation. (But) at that point, everyone becomes part of our United Sates family. We have to go back to the original Constitution and say, 'We the people.' We the people need to respond.

For years people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.

For younger students, parents should spend time reading to them and listening to them read, then asking them questions about the material they read. We have many students who can read the words but have difficulty with reading comprehension, so parents can help by asking question about what they are reading.

Freedom of drinking should always be allowed, and it is only American to let a guy get drunk where he wants to get drunk.

For sure, it's the best year I've ever had. We had a really good cash year, and sometimes it's difficult to follow that up with a provincial title, which we were able to do. So definitely this has been a pretty good year for us -- so far.

Fundamentally, this is an economic competitiveness issue. Our concern is how health care costs can be contained so that jobs can grow here.

If a guy's got a designated driver, go ahead and let him get toasted.

Given weather conditions this winter, supply overall appears to be adequate for U.S. needs through the winter.

If it's not in the books, then they become something that's simply hard and harsh and violent and quite unrelenting. That's neither the kind of book that I would like to read, nor that I would like to write. It's people's feelings that interest me.

If that isn't applying our ethos, I don't know what is. The very skills needed to survive at Burning Man are the skills needed to respond to a disaster.

If the Air Force is interested in participating in this program, gee, I welcome it, ... I mean, it's the Air Force, and this is an airplane.

If such an event occurred and Belden were unable to obtain waivers or otherwise resolve the covenant violation, an acceleration of the amounts under the credit agreement or the termination of the ISDA agreement could create a default under the indenture for Belden's $192 million senior secured notes.

Greg has been asked to give us a second opinion on the horse. I'll ride at Belmont on Saturday.

He has to keep everyone on the same page and bring the team together because they are not playing for the guy on the back they are playing for the crest on the front. Since it is a high-profile team like ours, it is all about getting guys to buy in.

He does have a history of drug use. We don't know how recent, or if any drug use occurred up to the time of his death. We just need to rule it out before we close the case.

We can ill afford to spend all this money defending what the superintendent is calling 'just a philosophy class.

We've been throwing the rocks pretty well, I'm not putting the broom where we need to put it. I'm not reading the ice very well, which is part of our problem. But we've got to make the shots when we have the opportunity, and we haven't been doing that. When there's a door open, we're not going in.

With most new HIV infections occurring in youth and women, particularly in communities of color, ignoring the effectiveness of prevention programs while allowing abstinence-only programs to promote ideology over science is negligent and puts young lives on the line.

Here I was, amid 500 tits, and I was principally paying attention to the social aspects of the event. It was neither puritanical nor prurient.

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Hockey will be a marquee sport for the network. Adding hockey to our lineup when the NHL returns to the ice with a fresh season, new energy, new players and new attitude adds tremendous value to OLN.

There are several parents who feel that it is time their students become part of the mainstream and go directly to Gene Witt Elementary. And there are a few that still feel they should remain in a small environment.

We made real progress in continental Europe where our long-term savings businesses performed well and we've gained good ground in the developing markets of Asia.

Humility is the best form of warfare; it is the only thing the enemy cannot do.

I actually get down on my knees and beg to see inside one. In fact, I've done that before.

He was one of the strongest kids I've wrestled against. I went in with a good attitude, and told myself I wasn't going to lose.

He wanted to make sure the board understood that they (Gonzalez and her volunteers) do an outstanding job and are a value to the county. But the recent disasters have really drained community support at this time.

Hampton University is poised to offer any assistance necessary to the faculty, staff and students at our sister schools,

This was a good overall effort. It was the kind of thing we've talked to our kids about all along: Focus, focus, focus. If you make a bad play, you forget about it and make the next play. If you make a good play, you forget about it and make the next play. It's always about what's next. We don't want the kids to lose that focus.