People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
~By Don McLean ~
I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.
~By Andrew Jack ~
But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
~By Charles Olson ~
I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.
~By Jamelia ~
At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.
~By Marc Davis ~
We have time, there's no big rush.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
~By Ian Fleming ~
Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
~By Natalie Portman ~
I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.
~By Todd Barry ~
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
~By Louis L'Amour ~
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
~By Henry Home ~
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo.
~By Tre Cool ~
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.
~By Estelle Morris ~
There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
~By Waylon Jennings ~
Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.
~By Barney Frank ~
We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
~By Willard Libby ~
What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.
~By Javier Bardem ~
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
~By Warren Buffett ~
I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.
~By Chris Matthews ~
It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.
~By Kathleen Parker ~
How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.
~By Mel Torme ~
It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.
~By Siouxsie Sioux ~
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
~By Denis Waitley ~
I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
~By David Bowie ~
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
~By John Acton ~
I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.
~By Jim Varney ~
The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
~By Richie Benaud ~
A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.
~By Matt Drudge ~
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.
~By John Barton ~
One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.
~By Vince McMahon ~
I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.
~By James Stewart ~
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
~By Karl Kraus ~
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
~By Norodom Sihanouk ~
Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
~By Gerard Manley Hopkins ~
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
~By Mason Cooley ~
You find yourself in this place where you really get to find out what you're made of, and what I found was that when I was at my time of greatest need, there were people who appeared in my life, and helped me through it.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.
~By Joanne Woodward ~
Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
~By Jean Rostand ~
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
~By George Santayana ~
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
~By Sivananda ~
Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~By Anais Nin ~
For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
~By Pink ~
We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
~By Bill Bradley ~
She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.
~By Robert Goulet ~
The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
~By Kim Hunter ~
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
~By Henry Flynt ~
I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.
~By Caprice Bourret ~
It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.
~By John Carpenter ~
Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.
~By Joe Murray ~
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.
~By Alex O'Loughlin ~
It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
~By Ruth Handler ~
I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
~By John James Audubon ~
It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
~By John Goodman ~
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.
~By Tori Amos ~
I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
~By Willie Nelson ~
Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.
~By Lindy Boggs ~
No it wasn't at the time cause you have to remember, I had been playing clubs since I was 13.
~By Steve Brown ~
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.
~By Richard Avedon ~
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
~By Tom Baker ~
I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
~By John Entwistle ~
Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.
~By Ann Beattie ~
And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.
~By Jim Mitchell ~
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
~By Serj Tankian ~
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
~By Patrick Marber ~
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
~By Eugene Levy ~
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
~By Karl Marx ~
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
~By Michael Burgess ~
I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
~By Karen Duffy ~
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
I came into the world at the right time.
~By Helge Ingstad ~
I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.
~By Alton Brown ~
Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.
~By Henry Walter Bates ~
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
~By Maria Monk ~
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