I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs. Use this quote
My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with. Use this quote
My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion. Use this quote
More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. Use this quote
I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it. Use this quote
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire. Use this quote
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Use this quote
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. Use this quote
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. Use this quote
I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time. Use this quote
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Use this quote
I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time. Use this quote
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen? Use this quote
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. Use this quote
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. Use this quote
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. Use this quote
I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God. Use this quote
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,' Use this quote
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. Use this quote
The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan. Use this quote