“Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLongLinesForeverAliveTeenagerSixteenDisgusted Author:John Mellencamp
“People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.” PeopleDoneArtistForeverSexualityExplicit Author:Robert Mapplethorpe
“I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.” PeopleWritingBigsYoungReadingLiteratureSoundImaginationNovelForeverViolenceListeningBandJazzI Have LearnedMy ImaginationHauntingCrystalsSoftnessSaxophoneTenorsUnderstatementColtraneReading NovelsLester Young Author:Ernest Gaines
“Normal people, fear the day their parents die. Screwed up people, fear that their parents are going to live forever. Showing up at your house at weird hours of the night, smelling all funny, with a bunch of their friends. Hey boy, this is Harold, Cecil and Dicky. Dicky lost his wife about a year ago. I hear Erin made cookies. Where can I put my shoes ? If that doesn't scare you, you're not human.” PeopleIfsYearsHumansMadeNightDiesHouseLostParentHoursBoysForeverWifeNormalYears AgoShoesBunchHeyScareCookiesLive ForeverShowing UpScrewed UpErin Author:Christopher Titus
“I was one of those people who wasn't getting a lot of milk, so I had to pump forever to just get two ounces of milk. But, you know, I wasn't going to give up or stop.” PeopleKnowsGivingTwoForeverGiving UpMilkPumps Author:Laila Ali
“I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.” PeopleWantWellsReasonForeverReason WhyBusinessmanEntertainers Author:Kevin Hart
“Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.” PeopleDifferentRaceClassForeverHarderGreenDifferent Races Author:Eddie Marsan
“If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.” PeopleIfsActorsWaitingForeverSupporting Actors Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.” PeopleBelieveLightStarsQualityForeverEternalShiningWarmthNever QuitSparkle Book:The Temple of My Familiar Source: The Temple of My Familiar
“I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don't get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven't loaded the dishwasher for her.” PeopleIfsStillsHomeKnownForeverHavensTreatedTreatmentMumSupportiveLoadedDishwashers Author:Katherine Jenkins
“I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don't want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern - legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.” PeopleWantHas BeensCareSocialForeverIssuesGayWeaponsConcernImpactAtheistAidsNuclearPunishmentFundNuclear WeaponsUrgentReluctantGay PeopleCapital PunishmentAgainst ReligionSocial Equality Author:Ian Mckellen
“I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.” PeopleForeverSouthCracksSouth AfricaUnnatural Author:Letta Mbulu
“Austin - it's a stimulating center. In this conversation, the very first two questions were talking about my kind of wanderlust and my adventures. Some people at my time in life travel forever. I don't know whether it's the British or the Australians - whoever it is, you can kind of stagger into some sort of far-off bastion in the middle of nowhere, and you'll find someone from Britain or someone from Australia or maybe an American.” PeopleKnowsFirstsKindTwoTalkingForeverMiddleAdventureConversationBritishMy TimeBritainAustraliaAustinMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Robert Plant
“I've been dreaming about having a press forever, like the '90s. I've always known so many great writers who aren't as connected to the publishing world as they should be, and I have the energy and the enthusiasm to sort of gather and promote people, so I've always thought someday I might embark on a big project like that.” PeopleWorldShouldDreamBigsMightEnergyKnownForeverProjectsPressesConnectedEnthusiasmSomedayPublishingGreat Writers Author:Michelle Tea
“If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!” PeopleIfsWellsMightForeverStuckGood People Author:Valerie June
“Dramatically at first - that's how I handle emotional pain. If there were an award given for these moments, then I would have a mantle full of gold statuettes. Then I take stock and seek counsel from people I trust and talk myself into a state of reflection and remember that it won't last forever.” PeopleIfsFirstsStatesMomentsPainLastsRememberGivenForeverEmotionalReflectionGoldHandleAwardsEmotional Pain Author:Danielle Cormack
“The thing with the question of oneness or non-oneness is that you can literally discuss it forever. You can go into the philosophy section of any library and you'll see people have been discussing it forever and will continue to do so.” PeopleHas BeensPhilosophyForeverLibraryOnenessSectionsDiscussing Author:Brad Warner
“Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.” PeopleMadeForeverCryTasteMiserableDramaticLike SomethingMade Me Cry Author:Alex Hirsch
“If you want to do other things, you have to leave soap operas, otherwise you'll be there forever, which is not bad, you know. Some people have made a great living off of being on soap operas. But if you want to branch out you have to leave early, otherwise you'll never get the shot.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantMadeForeverShotsBranchesOperaSoapSoap Operas Author:Jackee Harry
“I'm really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever.” PeopleI CanWatchesForeverComedySadnessTragedyRelaxDepressingReally Depressing Author:Lykke Li
“I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.” PeopleWayTryingJobsParentForeverLimitsAlways Trying Author:Carrie Brownstein
“And so the question becomes, what you do in the meantime? And you go - if you're forever on the move, especially in the life of the mind; forever reading veraciously, writing, speaking, lecturing, trying to unsettle minds, trying to touch souls, trying to encourage and inspire, on the one hand, but also trying to unhouse and unnerve people, so that they have to reexamine themselves, society and the world on the others. There's tremendous joy in it.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingTryingMindSoulHandsMovingJoyReadingForeverInspireLecturing Author:Cornel West
“Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?” PeopleThinkingWorldWayNeedsWritingPersonsBookSelfHelpingForeverGenerationsSelf HelpSeriousRight NowMessagesFavorsOur FamilySomedayWhy NotCaptureGood LifeDocumentsFuture GenerationGood PersonSelf Help BooksHelp BookPositive Messages Author:Brendon Burchard
“Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.” PeopleShouldPersonsSoulSpiritForeverGenerationsFameFortuneEnlightenedTaoismLastingScholarshipPassing AwayEphemeral Author:Zicheng Hong
“People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.” PeopleKnowsPersonsHappensForeverMetsDemandThrownJailArrested Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsStatesCultureStrongLosesConsciousnessForeverDrugOrdinaryCapacityNegativeHorribleDestructiveOur SocietyAddictInnateStates Of Consciousness Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“I know that I can forever walk the streets, drive the freeways, and be alive knowing that I created something with someone whom I love so very much that is such a powerful force. I would love for people to hear it the way I hear it [Forest Green].” PeopleKnowsWayI CanForceWalksPowerfulForeverKnowingAliveStreetsGreenForestsFreeways Author:Andy Kim
“Hopefully people will be reinventing comedy forever and ever. This is just what I do, and it's a type of comedy.” PeopleForeverComedyTypeHopefullyReinventing Author:David Cross
“You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.” PeopleForeverWho You AreAlbumsHearingBagsNo Point Author:Van Morrison
“If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.” PeopleIfsMenGivingHas BeensBodyWhiteForeverCreatingNarrativeExecutivesAwardsRetiredReviewersDistributors Author:Jill Soloway
“Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane [Fonda] heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever.” PeopleKnowsHeartI CanImportantReasonEyeLastsSongLordForeverHeardMy HeartBattleSingingGlorySeasonsRaisedRepublicJaneHymns Author:Baron Vaughn
“People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.” PeopleHurtForeverAdvantageKillingTaking AdvantageKilling Each OtherHurting Each Other Author:Vince Staples
“[Romeo + Juliet] is relevant when Hamlet and all of that was out, when [William] Shakespeare wrote it. It's relevant now. It's not a shocker, but then it is. I guess so because I'm in it, so it's shocking that it's still on TV. People are still talking about it. Hey, I'm still getting royalty checks from it. It's amazing to me and I hope it continues forever.” PeopleStillsTalkingForeverTvsChecksHeyRelevantShockingRoyaltyJulietRomeo Juliet Author:Quindon Tarver
“I met journalists that were on both sides of things. People who are young, enthusiastic and hard working journalists working on the online side and people who had been there forever. There was one journalist who had running shoes under her desk in case she had to kick of her heels and go out and cover a breaking news story.” PeopleHardStoriesRunningYoungSidesCasesForeverHard WorkMetsNewsShoesJournalistKicksOnlineHeelsDesksBoth SidesEnthusiasticNews StoriesBreaking NewsRunning Shoes Author:Rachel McAdams
“This world is not a place where people can be together forever.” PeopleWorldTogetherForeverThis WorldTogether Forever Author:Junaid Jamshed
“The police didn't afford you a phone call. You just disappeared for a while. And what was scary was we lived in a state where some people disappeared forever.” PeopleStatesForeverPolicePhonesScaryPhone Calls Author:Trevor Noah
“I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever!” PeopleUseYoungTalkingForeverHeardPhrasesCollectivesAgreementBargainingPeople TalkingCollective Bargaining Author:Cleve Jones
“The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the same time there are some people that are just such a mental mess that, you know, they will never get out of their obsessions and they can keep them forever.” PeopleKnowsAbleForeverGood ThingsObsessionGuiltyMessPenaltiesDeath PenaltyNot Guilty Author:Gaspar Noe
“The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible fact about what it was like in Russia during Stalin's time when people actually believed that to get to the point where the Proletariat would triumph, anything that was necessary to be done should be done; the means didn't count.” PeopleShouldMeanBookDoneFactsDarknessNovelForeverTerribleRussiaTriumphNoonArthurProletariatDarkness At Noon Author:Nat Hentoff
“I hear people say Donald Trump is going to destroy the country. The country's going to be changed forever. I don't know if I agree with that.” PeopleIfsKnowsCountryForeverChangedTrumpAgree Author:Megyn Kelly
“When people think, rightly or wrongly, that marriage is forever, they are stimulated to seek and find a resolution, a modus vivendi, whenever they quarrel.” PeopleThinkingForeverResolutionQuarrels Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.” PeopleYoungForeverLikesOldies Author:Desmond Tutu
“I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldBelievePersonsStillsWarEndsCountryHomeWantedSchoolDesireValuesForceI BelieveSupportForeverGayBenefitsMarriedShould HaveSoldierDearPartnersOur CountryLiberationDistinctionServingPatriarchyBack HomeOld SchoolBisexualArmed ForcesPersonal DesireGay Liberation Author:Cleve Jones
“I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever, just like everybody thought Newton had all the answers. And you probably read that, in the last of the 19th century, Harvard and others were discouraging people from going into physics because we have all the answers. And right after that, of course - we have - all this stuff is thrown out the window. And now we have whole new answers.” PeopleTryingFirstsWholeLastsCoursesStuffAnswersPrinciplesForeverCenturyWindowPhysicsThrownHarvardDiscouragingNewton19th Century Author:Charles Koch
“The Declaration of Independence was only partially applied for women and for certain immigrants such as the Chinese. And it wasn't applied to get rid of corporate welfare and cronyism. People who had special connections got special deals from the beginning. So all of those violations of what the Declaration of Independence expressed, have led to the problems we have today. So, the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons for seven generations, or much longer. Forever.” PeopleProblemTodayCertainFatherSinDealsForeverGenerationsSpecialSonConnectionsIndependenceSevenChineseCorporateWelfareImmigrantsDeclarationViolationDeclaration Of IndependenceCronyism Author:Charles Koch
“Boom and bust cycles are very difficult for businesses because you're hiring a bunch because you're planning for the future. And if the future is going to be very big, you need to hire people, or suddenly you go to boom to bust, then all of a sudden, you're kind of battening down the hatches and trying to sail, you know, through the storm, it's a different thing. So part of it is making good decisions about, well, how long is a boom cycle going to be, you know, don't plan on it going forever.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsTryingWellsKindLongDifferentBigsDifficultDecisionForeverPlansStormPlanningBunchDifferent ThingsCyclesBe YouSailHiringFuture PlansGood DecisionThrough The Storm Author:Reid Hoffman
“Trudeau motivated people between the ages of 18 to 35 to vote, and 82 per cent of them voted for him. That changed Canadian politics forever. If they stay motivated, and believe me, they are, no party can ever get a majority mandate again without winning at least 60 per cent of those voters. There hasn't been a Conservative candidate in 15 years that ever got on a campus anywhere here in any Canadian university and wasn't thrown stones at.” PeopleIfsYearsBelieveAgeWinningPartyForeverChangedStonesVoteMajorityUniversityConservativeCandidatesThrownVotersMotivatedCentsBelieve In MeCampusMandatesStay Motivated Author:Kevin O'Leary
“Young people have been educated and raised to believe that that aspect of our history disqualifies America from ever being anything that you can justify, from ever being anything great, from ever being anything with any goodness in it, that the United States is forever blemished.” PeopleBelieveHas BeensStatesAmericaYoungUnitedUnited StatesForeverGoodnessAspectRaisedEducatedJustify Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can't sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can't do it for more than a few months. It was a tactic I had not predicted. If people asked me, I would have said "don't do it." But it was a great success, an enormous success, with a big impact on people's thinking, on people's actions.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidBigsActionForeverStreetsMovementWallMonthsImpactEnormousParksTacticsGreat SuccessBig Impact Author:Noam Chomsky
“When one is that powerful and one think life will last like that forever, it is simply the most ephemeral thing. I don't think these sons and daughters of drug dealers are contributing to a lasting peace nor to human values that add to our society. They're delivering the message of riches and power that comes at the cost of people's lives and health and they incentivize young people to follow this model.” PeopleThinkingHumansLastsYoungValuesPowerfulForeverSonCostDrugMessagesModelsDaughterAddRichesOur SocietyLastingContributingDealerDeliveringEphemeralHuman ValuesSon And DaughterDrug Dealers Author:Juan Pablo Escobar