Quotes by Mark Knopfler

“Juliet, the dice was loaded from the startAnd I bet, then you exploded in my heart And I forget, I forget the movie songWhen you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong? Juliet.We come up...”

“When you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of goldYou can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they holdYou promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin, yeah.N...”

“I seen a girl on a one way corridor Stealing down a wrong way streetFor all the world like an urban toreador She had wheels on her feetWell the cars do the usual dances Same old cruise and the curb...”

“Hallelujah here she comes queen rollerballOm Shanti what can I say don't care at all You know she used to have to wait aroundShe used to be the lonely oneBut now that she can skate around townShe's...”

“She gets rock n roll, a rock n roll stationAnd a rock n roll dream.She's making movies on location.She don't know what it means.But the music make her wanna be the story.And the story was whatever ...”

“She gets the sun in the daytime Perfume in the duskAnd she comes out in the night timeWith the honeysuckle muskBecause she smells just like a roseAnd she tastes just like a peachShe got me walking ...”

“A long time ago came a man on a trackWalking thirty miles with a sack on his backAnd he put down his loadWhere he thought it was the bestHe made a home in the wildernessHe built a cabin and a winte...”

“Well, I'd sooner forget, but I remember those nightsYeah, life was just a bet on a race between the lightsYou had your head on my shoulderYour hand in my hairNow you act a little colderLike you don...”

“You get to meet all sorts in this line of workTreachery and treason, there's always an excuse for itAnd when I find the reason, I still can't get used to itAnd what have you got at the end of the d...”

“The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his postThey're refusing to be pacified, it's him they blame the most.The watchdog's got rabies, the foreman's got the fleas.And everyone's concerned abo...”

“Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong.”

“It takes love over goldAnd mind over matterTo do what you do that you mustWhen the things that you holdCan fall and be shatteredOr run through your fingers like dust”

“I'm tired of being in love and being all aloneWhen you're so far away from me.I'm tired of making out on the telephoneBecause you're so far away from me.”

“Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do itYou play the guitar on the MTV.That ain't workin', that's the way you do it.Money for nothin' and chicks for free.Now that ain't workin', that's th...”

“Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldiesBe-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I SayHere comes Johnny singing I Gotta WomanDown in the tunnels, trying to make it pay.He got the action, he got the motionOh yeah ...”

“All the late night bargains have been struckBetween the satin beaus and their belles.Prehistoric garbage trucksHave the city to themselvesEchoes and roars, dinosaursThey're all doing the monster ma...”

“Why worry? There should be laughter after pain.There should be sunshine after rain.These things have always been the same.So why worry now?”

“Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.”

“But it's written in the starlightAnd every line in your palmWe're fools to make warOn our brothers in arms.”

“A three-chord symphony crashes into spaceThe moon is hanging upside downI don't know why it is I'm still on the caseIt's a ravenous townAnd you still refuse to be tracedSeems to me such a wasteAnd ...”