Chuck Berry Quotes

There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino.

Chuck Berry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 18, 1926 - March 18, 2017

Topics

GreatSoulMy SoulLazinessPlay

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

John Grisham

GoodGreatMyselfI AmWritingHard

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Andrew Young

ChangeWorldSurvivalViolenceNeed

I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

Amy Waldman

PeopleThoughtYearsWastedWorrying

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

WorldKnittingUse

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.

Michael Korda

AloneMoneyPeopleLeadDegreeHigh

I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.

Judy Sheindlin

FamilyMyselfThinkingHellYou

My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.

Jorja Smith

MeVoiceMy OwnSoundOwnBecause

I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.

Johnny Gimble

SideLeftDecemberStrokeAffected

When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.

Diane Ackerman

RainStormSometimesSizeSeeTown

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

Cordell Hull

TechnologyScienceManEnergyOver

A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.

Claudia Rankine

WomenMenBlackBodyWhiteNothing

I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.

Brandon Flowers

WorkSadSchoolHigh SchoolVegas

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