Donovan Quotes

I'm probably the most successful Celtic bard of my generation, who projected this style and this image and this casketful of magical songs all around the world.

Donovan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

StyleWorldGenerationImageMagical

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

Andre Dubus III

ArtJobThinkInterestingQuestions

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

Ann Cotton

ConfidenceSomeonePovertyYouNeed

The use of chance operations opened out my way of working. The body tends to be habitual. The use of chance allowed us to find new ways to move and to put movements together that would not otherwise have been available to us. It revealed possibilities that were always there except that my mind hadn't seen them.

Merce Cunningham

TogetherMindChancePossibilities

Private monopolies run by special interests should not get to raise taxes and set regulatory policy for the United States.

Mike Pompeo

RunSpecialTaxesPolicyUnitedGet

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

Jose Carreras

PiecesUsSingLogicalNecessarily

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

DJ Khaled

FamilyBeautifulChildrenDayMan

I wrote that song 'Black,' and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. Everyone talks about 'happily ever after,' but there's so much more to it than that.

Dierks Bentley

SongBlackMoreEveryoneYearsBeen

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

Bono

WorldHomeworkAdmitMeetingBoring

Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

MusicTeacherHistoryFireSchool

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

Peter Garrett

ChangeThinkInterestingMediaBeen

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Nick Saban

PeopleHighLikeMediocreAchievers

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.

Mark Boal

WarNightThinkYouI CanNews

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Donovan