Elliott Smith Quotes

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

Elliott Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 6, 1969 - October 21, 2003

Topics

ThinkAnythingPlayingOscarsGonna

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

John Robert Seeley

LifeBeautifulInterestingMay

I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token, action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes, and hopefully you can get a good balance of all of that stuff.

Stephen Lang

LoveGoodGreatBalanceActionYou

You can't judge a family's health by the form it's in at a given moment.

Stephanie Coontz

FamilyHealthMomentJudgeYouForm

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

Tori Amos

LoveMotherSheClassicGotStore

Fans be reflecting the way I be making music.

Travis Scott

MusicWayFansReflectingMaking

Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come from. I see my future.

Roxane Gay

FutureDayParentsMeMoreSee

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

Michael Schumacher

FootballEnjoyNeedConcentration

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Dirk Benedict

AloneTimeMeRoomPaperFavorite

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

William James

IndividualRevelationForceMust

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

Sylvia Earle

RoadsGolfAgricultureGoForty

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

Susan Orlean

SportsMoneyPeopleBelieveStory

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

Marjane Satrapi

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