“When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.” YearsLongHas BeensLastsStuffExistenceStepsHappenedMinutesLong TimeToolsOkayGuitarBoundariesPushingBad ThingsMags Author:Joe Satriani
“I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.” BelieveKindPersonsMotherI BelieveStepsHappenedFoolCapableKillingOpeningRemarksHesitation Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it?” NeedsMayHas BeensCountryStepsHappenedConstitutionSocialismOur CountryThread Author:Ernest L. Wilkinson
“The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.” WorldStepsHappenedInstantDescriptionYieldRecollection Author:Carlos Castaneda
“Well, we now have such a photograph... Has any new idea been let loose? It certainly has. You will have noticed how suddenly everybody has become seriously concerned to protect the natural environment... It seems to me more than a coincidence that this awareness should have happened at exactly the moment man took his first step into space.” MenShouldFirstsWellsIdeasMomentsSeemsNaturalSpaceStepsEnvironmentHappenedAwarenessProtectConcernedShould HavePhotographFirst StepsNew IdeasCoincidenceNatural Environment Author:Fred Hoyle
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” FirstsMotivationalHappinessFreedomAcceptingStepsHappenedAcceptanceConsequenceOvercomingAdversityMisfortunesFirst StepsElderlyOvercoming Hardship Author:William James
“Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.” GivingFictionStepsHappenedEventsNeededDistanceExplaining Author:Kathleen Rooney
“When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.” TwoStepsHappenedWeekPopsThings HappenMainstreamBassGaragePinnacle Author:Kieran Hebden
“I talk to people who go to rehab, and they get this AA book that they've got to read everyday - really thick book. They go through all these 12 steps and do all this and that. It's crazy how everybody can sit and talk about rehab but if I come to say Christ was my rehab, it's not cool to say that. ... For me that's my rehab. That's what happened with me and it's an amazing and powerful thing.” PeopleIfsBookChristPowerfulStepsHappenedCrazyEverydayThickRehab12 Step Author:Reginald Arvizu
“The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.” TogetherChanceStepsHappenedMovedExtraordinary Author:Benoit Mandelbrot