Michael Stipe Quotes

There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.

Michael Stipe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

PeopleMeWayBeyondChoirStage

Psychological horror I've always appreciated, like 'Rosemary's Baby.' The slasher movies and the grotesque movies are the ones that I've really been off for a while.

John Carroll Lynch

BabyMoviesHorrorAppreciatedOff

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

Andres Serrano

LoveHateViceThingOftentimes

There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.

Michael Bloomberg

New YorkPeopleAmericaYouKnow

Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35.

Mary Gauthier

MusicMeSongKindAnchorFirst

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Mikhail Gorbachev

RelationshipPeopleDrivingNails

Millions of women in malaria-endemic areas in Africa become pregnant every year. Malaria is a threat to these women and their babies, with up to 200,000 newborn deaths each year as a result of malaria.

Joyce Banda

WomenYearResultAfricaBecomeUp

Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.

Jayne Mansfield

KnowGotMost

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

Jasper Johns

PaintingDoingDrawingSomething

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.

Dichen Lachman

LifeMorningDaySomeoneWishKnow

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

Christo

New YorkCityPlaceNewCentral Park

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

Bruce Schneier

CopyFlightHiddenExcelMicrosoft

We live in such an image-heavy world that not seeing yourself in that landscape can really make it tough to feel human, to feel like you are part of the world.

Petra Collins

LiveYourselfWorldToughLandscape

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Michael Stipe