Gerry Rafferty Quotes

I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

Gerry Rafferty

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: April 16, 1947 - January 4, 2011

Topics

MusicBestRestI CanNewNever

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Robert Southey

LifeLiveLongYouFirstYears

American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us with the rest of the world. Thus, they are good ambassadors for us.

Robert Kennedy

GoodCultureInfluenceWorldRest

I've become a representative of the American Diabetes Association, and then I just became national spokesman for the American Heart Association for a campaign called The Heart of Diabetes, which brings the awareness of cardio-vascular disease to diabetics.

Stephen Furst

HeartAmericanDiabetesBecomeJust

With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.

Tony Bates

KnowledgeWorldTeachersStudying

A lot of the TV shows, they do long hours, and they do a lot of days, and you don't get a lot of time. But the good thing is, if you get one that's made in L.A., or made in a place you want to be, you get to go home every night.

Jason Statham

GoodHomeTimeNightLongYou

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Janis Joplin

MeYouMercedesBuyLordOh

Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets.

Joseph Brodsky

EvilConfidentNumbersAlwaysPurity

Water security is not just for domestic policies. International co-operation is crucial to sustainably manage trans-boundary water bodies and river basins.

Jose Angel Gurria

WaterRiverSecurityJustDomestic

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

DirectionYouTrainWrongAlongUse

My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.

Condoleezza Rice

SomeoneYouBackStrikeHimClub

A coherent typeface is an essential part of a coherent branding strategy.

Bruno Maag

StrategyEssentialPartCoherent

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Woody Allen

PeopleUniverseEnoughFindKnow

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