Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About tim

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

Banjo Between Birthday Father
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

Because Before Beginning Born
  Favorite Make wallpaper

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Because Business Every Every Time
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It’s time to stop being part of the problem by speaking out about the culture of harmful practices and impunity that has led to needless murders. We are not merely showing discontent but addressing the need to change the reinforcement of this impunity & negligence.

Speaking Harmful Practices Murders
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

About Along Biggest Biggest Influence
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

After Could Couple Folk
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

About Baseball Baseball Players Bring
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.

Because Been Drinking Eat
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You can reorient your life to the highest possible good that you can conceive of if you stopped wasting time, if you stopped lying to yourself. Success is a daily habit.

Reorient Your life Highest possible Good
  Favorite Make wallpaper

As you move forward in life, the probability that you’re going to get it completely right the first time you try, is ZERO!

You Move forward Life Right
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You are not alone. You are not a failure for failing the first, second, third, or umpteenth time. The essence of your existence far supersedes that hurdle.

Not alone Failure.umpteenth time
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Great and beautiful things take time! True success doesn't happen overnight.
Great Beautiful things Take time True success
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Liberty Money Pay Price
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Devil Sometimes Thing Very
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

Elton EltonJohn Imperial Jealous
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

Actor Amazing Contribution Directors
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I've lived in L.A. for a long time, and they say, 'If you sit in a barber's shop for long enough, you will get a hair cut.' Well, if you live in Los Angeles for long enough, you're going to get some surgery.

Angeles Barber Cut Enough
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Such thing Underestimate Average intelligence
  Favorite Make wallpaper

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

One friends Lifetime Hardly possible
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ask Every Explain Intrigued
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Legitimate Only Required Self-Defense
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Artist Expressing Feelings His
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Bound Emerge Figures Little
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

After Always Ashamed Back
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Any Breakdown Case Edge
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.
Being Consciousness Controls Element
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

Became Because Child Everyone
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Be Expects Fool Happy
  Favorite Make wallpaper
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Down Feel Help Hoping
  Favorite Make wallpaper
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Communal Defend Doctrine Every
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Achievements Been Before Century
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

Become Clear Everyone Greater
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Any experiment that can benefit by one hairsbreadth any single human life is a thousand times worth trying.

Any experiment Hairsbreadth Human life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Back Building Country Elections
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Right time Lucky Have
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Power Ultimate
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Thank you Applause Humble
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.

Power Legitimacy Tempt tests Strength
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Adversity Reason Benefit Sober reflection
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Every Film Great New
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

Appreciate Garden Live Me
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

All Day Around Because Bed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

Around Carry Certain Certain Point
  Favorite Make wallpaper

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

Adored Associate Enormous Everyone
  Favorite Make wallpaper
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
Only Problems Time-Consuming Ones
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A person on dialysis undergoes very heavy and irritating treatment, and in time, it seems more than you can bear.

Bear Heavy Irritating More
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.

Characters Defined Explanation Feast
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Above Aim Devote Legitimate
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Achievement Acorn Angel Bird
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Everybody Family Feed Forget
  Favorite Make wallpaper