Rupert Holmes Quotes

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!

Rupert Holmes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 24, 1947

Topics

FailureFirstCriticsEveryoneOnly

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

John Dingell

LibraryLivingWildWithoutBurning

When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

Andrea Bocelli

LifeLoveHappinessI AmJoyGoal

I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.

Michael Bloomberg

HappyMeBe HappyAdviceMatterWho

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

Steve Coogan

LaughterComedyUniqueNoiseSense

The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel.

Robert Fisk

GreatSupportWishInjusticeLand

There are some really wealthy hedge fund billionaires in San Francisco who have pledged a lot of money for Democratic candidates to argue for cap and trade and carbon tax and all these things.

Ron DeSantis

MoneyTaxCapThingsTradeArgue

A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.

Ron White

HumorPeopleLaughFindSomething

I don't even remember how many times I've sprained my ankle. I've had stress fractures galore and torn my PCL. You just take a little time off if you have the time, and if not, you keep training until you can take the time off.

Mirai Nagasu

TimeStressTrainingRememberYou

Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look around and there's a lack of good, strong, upstanding Christian men who are not afraid to be men and just own up to their responsibility.

Josh Turner

GoodTimeResponsibilityDayMenMe

I've never had any fear in my entire career.

Jose Aldo

FearCareerNeverAnyHadEntire

If I hear a story or a fact about somebody I don't know and have never met, it's like getting a hollow vessel that you can fill up with whatever you want. That's more tempting to me than to try to replicate what I actually know.

Claire Messud

MeStoryYouKnowWantNever

I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.

Brian Austin Green

I CanSometimesMoviesNothingCouch

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