Townes Van Zandt Quotes

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Townes Van Zandt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 7, 1944 - January 1, 1997

Topics

FutureLivePastThinkingPresent

'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence.

Joanna Scott

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I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

Jenny Slate

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'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it.

Michael Douglas

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No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

Amitabh Bachchan

MomentI AmThinkingI CanNewTalk

My deepest desire is to do the thing that is first and foremost just.

Trent Franks

DesireFirstDeepestJustThing

Everybody who's anybody has been competitive and over-sensitive and a bit silly. 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.

Robbie Williams

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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Miguel de Cervantes

WithinGreatestMustWhomCombat

My parents strapped a pair of plastic skis on my boots when I was two years old and sent me down our driveway in Vail. Of course, they were holding on to me the whole time, but that was my first experience 'skiing.'

Mikaela Shiffrin

TimeExperienceParentsMeSkiing

The first event I vividly remember was competing at the Junior Olympics in Seattle, Washington. It was my first major competition outside of Texas, and I remember being very nervous. I could not control my nerves, and I threw a few fouls.

Michelle Carter

CompetitionControlTexasRemember

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

Jonathan Sacks

WorkFaithDonePrinceOutstanding

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

David Small

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The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

Clara Mamet

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