Jim Morrison Quotes
Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?
Quotes to Explore
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.
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L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people.
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I went downtown to the courthouse pretty late at night, and arraignment court was on. You have these prosecutors and public defenders and judges and all of these people who are there on a Friday night at half past 12, and how can you expect people to bring their judgment and their best selves to their work at that kind of time?
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I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.
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Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?