“In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing” MeanMadeWholeAmericaFoundGoneBallsIntentionMusicalAlbumsIntellectEnormousAwfulReverenceGood IntentionsParodyCheesyBlurDrearyOasisGreat Escape Author:Justine Frischmann
“The chords in 'Light My Fire' are based on [John] Coltrane's version of this song. He just solos over A minor and B minor, which is exactly what we did. Coltrane had played with Miles on Kind of Blue and took the idea of modal soloing over one or two chords farther out than anybody. He was a real pioneer - he just kept evolving, going where no one had ever gone. He could always attain this state of ecstasy when he played. Live, there was so much energy, you couldn't believe it. He would play for hours. It was indescribable.” BelieveKindTwoIdeasRealStatesPlayLightSongEnergyHoursGoneFireBlueMilesVersionsEvolveEcstasyMinorsSoloChordsPioneersIndescribableColtraneKind Of Blue Author:Robby Krieger
“I suppose I am proud of what has gone on, after all I only ever wanted to play the guitar for a living, and that is what I am still doing.” StillsPlayWantedGoneProudGuitar Author:Bernie Marsden
“I was shopping at my local mall in Dallas that I've gone to for like three years now. And everyone was like "Oh my God, who's that? Who's that?" And I was like whatever, because you know, there are like 20 people traveling with me. It's like I have an entourage following me -- which is so funny.” PeopleKnowsYearsThreeGoneFollowingLocalsShoppingThree YearsMallsDallasEntourage Author:Cheyenne Kimball
“My dad is from Ironwood and the last time I was in Marquette was in 1995 when my dad was still alive. Dad would have loved this. Even though my family is long gone from this area it still feels like home.” FeelsLongStillsHomeLastsGoneAliveDadAreasMy FamilyMy DadLast Time Author:Jorma Kaukonen
“Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.” NeedsWellsCountryBigsBitsCompanyGoneInternetBig Companies Author:Jack Bruce
“My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.” MenYearsFirstsI CanAgeGoneYouthEmotionalDramaSceneLogicInvestmentNotionTimingConnectingEmotional Investment Author:Tom Courtenay
“In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.” WorldKindChildrenProblemGrowthWealthGoneEconomicHugeAmountBenefitsSpringProgramManagementInternationalPopulationBlowCorruptionReformConcentrationFundMarvelousEgyptWagesMonetaryPostersArab SpringImfWorld BankConcentration Of Wealth Author:Noam Chomsky
“We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.” ProblemBlackGoneHappenedSeriousRacismMalesRateAfrican AmericanRoofNo ProblemReconstructionIncarcerationBlack LivesBlack Males Author:Noam Chomsky
“Here's the best birth control in the whole world, if you really, if you have no pills, if you have no diaphragm, if you have no other form of contraception. Use it for ladies, if he comes at you with that little thing in his hand, just laugh at it. They can't deal with it, OK, it'll be gone.” IfsWorldLittlesWholeUseHandsFormDealsLaughingGoneBirthWhole WorldLittle ThingsPillsBirth ControlContraception Author:Robin Williams
“People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.” PeopleLooksFatherGoneKillingTendenciesHuntingHunters Author:Patty Hearst
“I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke up from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect" (or beetle or cockroach, depending on the translation). I have to have that first line before I can go further.” WorldFirstsI CanDreamLinesGoneModelsTransformedInsectsTranslationsUneasyMetamorphosisCockroachesBeetles Author:Laurie Foos
“I've learned that each day is definitely a gift. When my dad died, I made sure I said everything to him. I realized that once he's gone, he's gone. No matter how angry or resentful or whatever.” MadeSaidMatterGoneDadDiedAngryMy DadI RealizedI've LearnedEach DayResentfulDad DiedMy Dad Died Author:John Feldmann
“I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they hadn't sent me to boarding school I would have probably gone to prison. And it cost them absolutely everything.” IfsThinkingAgeSchoolParentGoneGrewCostGrew UpPrisonSouthValleysRealisedWales Author:Thighpaulsandra
“I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.” WayDifferentSpiritualGoneSawsChangedLateTensionSpiritual Change Author:Bill Murray
“The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons of mass destruction, I would have gone, because I don't believe that the U.S. should be involved directly in civil wars.” IfsKnowsWayShouldBelieveWarKnow HowGonePolicyInvolvedWeaponsMassPicksDestructionDon't BelieveCivil WarForeign PolicySaddamHusseinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:John Kasich
“I don't know if I had success or not. But I am afraid of myself. Why am I afraid of myself? I always feel - I don't know - weak in the sense of not having power and also power is a fleeting thing, here today, gone tomorrow.” IfsKnowsFeelsTodayGoneTomorrowWeakFleetingHere Today Gone Tomorrow Author:Pope Francis
“I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains.” ThinkingKnowsWorldHas BeensCommunityHalfGoneLowsRemainsFruitOilReserves Author:Randall Robinson
“Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.” SaidBodyMotherBornGoneBuriedDead Mother Author:Kim Hyesoon
“Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.” IfsCitiesGoneFiguresBalanceExcitedSuspectsBoresSheetsBalance Sheets Author:Anne Robinson
“I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.” IfsKnowsLongEnoughTodayGoneRocksMissingTomorrowStuckRock N RollMiss MeHere Today Gone Tomorrow Author:Jeff Beck
“I just pray. And I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion, when I was about 6 or 7.” ChurchReligiousGoneHavensPrayingHolyCatholicRaisedCommunionHoly Communion Author:Lynsey Addario
“In polite society, there is such a thing as sensitivity to some issues, as time has gone on. There was a time when we weren't politically correct, at all, and we all wince at moments when we look to the past and see that. I don't really know what the answer is, as far as that is concerned. However, me, as an artist, I don't really think about it, at all. It actually is not my job to think about that, especially in terms of me, as a writer, but also as a filmmaker. I'm not worried about the filmmaking part because, if I'm writing it, that's what I'm going to do.” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingLooksMomentsJobsPastArtistTermAnswersGoneIssuesConcernedWorriedFilmmakerFilmmakingSensitivityPolitePolitically CorrectWince Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I've been aware of my gay fans since album one. There has been such great support from that community and it has gone both ways.” WayHas BeensCommunitySupportGoneFansGayAlbums Author:Josh Groban
“What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not L.A. Not Chicago. Not anywhere, in the sense that African American music has gone around the world twenty times over, and it's continuing to evolve. It is our greatest cultural export.” WorldCultureGivenTermCitiesGoneNew YorkTwentiesAround The WorldAfrican AmericanEvolveChicagoContinuingNew OrleansAmerican CultureAmerican MusicAfrican American Music Author:David Simon
“Blue jeans have gone around the world. But that's a product. We market blue jeans better, just as we market film better. But you can't tell me that if America didn't exist, the culture of movies wouldn't exist. It's not a distinctly American art form.” IfsWorldArtAmericaFilmFormCultureGoneProductsBlueAround The WorldJeansBlue Jeans Author:David Simon
“I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned. Therefore I feel it's incumbent on me personally to just contribute something, to add to a collective voice that needs to be here right now, to build it up to a tipping point, to make the world aware that women's rights still have to be addressed and that the word 'feminism' has been devalued and needs to be reclaimed.” PeopleWorldNeedsFeelsHas BeensStillsGivenVoiceTermGoneDemocracyRightsFeminismRight NowVoteAddAccessMedicalShouldersGiantsCollectivesTreatmentWomens RightsIncumbentsTippingTipping PointMedical TreatmentAffording Author:Annie Lennox
“Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different from each other. So, former presidents are different from each other, too. Some have gone into relative seclusion. Some have decided to teach.” DifferentShowsIndividualPresidentTeachGoneDecidedNewspapersFormerRelativeHostTalk ShowsColumnistsSeclusion Author:Jimmy Carter
“So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.” PeopleYearsHumansHas BeensGoneModernCenturyDevelopmentPeriodsMoonLateDiscoveryHorseInnovationErasCoveredCows19th CenturyMost AmazingCamelsWagonsAccelerationModern Era Author:Edgar Mitchell
“One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead. It's hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.” YearsBelieveHardGoneHundredHard To Believe Author:Bill Ayers
“When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.” Life IsGoneIdentityAdjustmentStunning Author:Bill Ayers
“I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair.” YearsTwoShowsHomePastThreeGoneWeekHairPagesTrainGrayThree YearsCalendarsPeelingGray HairOld Movie Author:Chris Isaak
“It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.” ArtistCommonGoneGenerationsConcernedSellsYounger GenerationAlready Gone Author:Carole King
“I always said I would have gone in to psychology, or maybe the FBI. I'm really in to and interested in humans and their minds and emotions. I think that's another reason I like songwriting. It's amazing the stories you can tell about someone, just from a little people watching” PeopleThinkingMindHumansLittlesSaidReasonStoriesEmotionGonePsychologySongwritingFbi Author:Jessica Harp
“A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.” CareersGoneBloodTearsMinesSweatSweat And TearsBlood Sweat And Tears Author:Kevin Hart
“All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd. Of course it's going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air.” LittlesAgeCoursesGoneAirRevolutionArgumentAbsurdIceComing OutCarbonTemperatureCarbon DioxideIndustrial RevolutionIce Age Author:Reid Bryson
“Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.” WritingWellsBookMightBitsGoneOur FamilyLocationAbsentWriting A Book Author:Michael Crichton
“Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to think of it as just one discipline. I expect to see separate departments of user interface, for example, to start emerging at universities.” ThinkingWalksGoneExampleDisciplineUniversityTinyMake SenseJust OneDepartmentUsersEmergingComputingWalks Of LifeInterfacesUser Interface Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.” FirstsGoneGratitudeLaughterEternityReliefPerformersEmperorSids Author:Ben Stein
“In a world that has gone global, we no longer have a choice. If we don't export freedom, we risk importing the viruses which have corrupted other nations. ... Some critics complained that President Bush was arrogant when he suggested America can and should export freedom to other countries. This implies the people of unfree countries may not wish to be free. Which is the greater arrogance?” PeopleIfsWorldShouldMayCountryAmericaChoicesNationsWishPresidentGoneGreaterRiskCriticsArroganceArrogantOther CountriesPresident BushVirusesUnfree Author:Cal Thomas
“I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd to me that someone who has gone through that experience and has managed to save then gets taxed for dying.” HardSeemsGoneIssuesDyingDadTaxesMy DadOddInheritanceMigrantsInheritance Tax Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar
“Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.” MenHumansDoeLife IsSpeakGoneIllusionEndlessHuman LifeHypocrisyMutualDeceiving Author:Blaise Pascal
“The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally andinternationally.” WorldGone Author:John Major
“'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.” ThinkingShouldFirstsBigsGoneHappenedShould HaveSellsRewardsFinanceBrandsCorporateSurvivorMacsSponsorsCoca ColaBig Mac Author:Mark Burnett
“There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but at the same time are desperately unhappy. It's not total poverty, just a poverty of ideas.” IdeasKidsWhitePovertyGoneBritishHungryUnhappyAwfulRoof Author:Richey Edwards
“Once physical beauty is gone there must be something more to take its place . . . 'To thine ownself be true' is a rule to live by in Hollywood, especially. There's a strong undercurrent of conformity in the movie colony that one must fight all the time. I think this especially true when it comes to fashion, beauty and grooming.” ThinkingFightingStrongGoneFashionHollywoodBeing TrueLive ByConformityColonyGroomingPhysical BeautyRules To Live By Author:Glenn Ford
“I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.” IfsThinkingSometimesBigsYoungGuyNextStarsNovelGoneMassiveLongevityHandsomeBig ThingsMovie StarOxfordCambridgeYoung Guys Author:Eddie Marsan
“I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.” Gone Author:Sharon Stone
“I can't stop myself from reaching for the bottle that's under my seat. I've gone all night without a sip, but it's not about being addicted. It's about being told what to do my whole life and doing it and then losing everything anyway.” I CanWholeNightGoneLosingWhole LifeSeatsReachingBottlesAll NightLosing Everything Author:A.S. King
“It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” KnowsMomentsPainLastsPleasureGoneMissingLifetimeMissing YouI Miss YouMissed YouI Missed YouMissing ItMissing You LoveLove And Miss YouI've Missed You Author:Bette Davis