1,453 quotes found
Musician · American · 1970
American musician (born 1970)
“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
“People were always ready to yield theirwills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chancefor developing initiative, stability, and independence, said the greatnineteenth-century Russi...”
“To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.”
“You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.”
“The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.”
“All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.”
“But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a ...”
“That's not the same. What happened to you, to your species, it's... it doesn't even compare.''Why? Because it's worse?'She nodded.'But it still compares. If you have a fractured bone, and I've brok...”
“Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.”
“When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
“I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”
“If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.”
“Housework can kill you if done right.”
“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”
“My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me,' you know -- and I giveyou three guesses which one went.”
“Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.”
“Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.”