Kevin Ayers Quotes

Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.

Kevin Ayers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 16, 1944 - February 18, 2013

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GirlFoodPeopleMeThinkSomeone

I live in Manhattan but travel all around the world; I moved to Paris when I was 16; I lived in London twice. It's kind of like, if I want to move somewhere, I don't have anything holding me back. I don't have children. If I wanna live in a certain place, I'll go. But I've lived everywhere, and I prefer New York to everything.

Jessica White

LiveChildrenTravelNew YorkWorld

Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not.

John Leeson

HairThinkKnowSomethingI Think

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

Tracey Ullman

LoveMoviesBeyondBoundariesTaste

People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.

Travis Bradberry

WorkTimePeoplePerformanceWeekend

I can't see myself playing as a 36-year-old.

Toni Kroos

MyselfSeePlaying

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.

Robert E. Lee

WorkPowerDayProgressSlaveryEnd

I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that!

Rob Delaney

LovePeopleStandI CanSmellRoom

We think there should be a better countering-violent-extremism effort, that there should be a lead agency tasked to handle that.

Michael McCaul

EffortThinkBetterLeadHandle

Internally, when we manage portfolios, we figure out what works in large cap, what works in mid cap, what works in small cap. Generally speaking, large cap stocks want earning stability, strong cash flow, margin expansion.

Louis Navellier

SmallStrongWantFlowCapOut

I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I make music that isn't for something I want to make, and it's to please other people, it's - the outcome is really bad.

Julia Holter

MusicSchoolPeopleWritingBad

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

Dolores Huerta

FamilyLeaderMotherWomenGreatMe

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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