David Byrne Quotes

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on.

David Byrne

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GoodMomentThinkLonelyYouWay

Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.

Jim Harrison

CravingUnderstoodLotAnyWriters

I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.

Jim Woodring

LifeCrazyThinkMy LifeAnything

Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.

Sophia Amoruso

MoneyFeetBetterLooksBankYour

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.

Sukarno

LifeFearHateStruggleWorldSmall

Before I came out, the thought of someone calling me gay, even when I knew very well that I was, was petrifying.

Troye Sivan

MeThoughtSomeoneGayOutWell

God has established what man is supposed to do, and he expects man to do it his way and not a way independently of him. And when you do things independently of him, you have consequences you don't want to bear.

Tony Evans

GodManYouConsequencesWantWay

Everything I did in P.E. was just awful. Archery was just something that we did as a father/daughter activity, and it just kind of grew out of that, really.

Miranda Leek

KindEverythingOutSomethingJust

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

Josh Radnor

WeirdMoviesWayHearEarActually

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Jon Krakauer

PeopleIllusionPromiseWhoAbsolute

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

Diego Klattenhoff

LifeImaginationDrawingYouAlways

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

Douglas Wood

FunnyMovingSayNashvilleSomething

I am 5ft 10in. I got my height from my dad, who was very rangy. I like being tall.

Cornelia Parker

I AmTallHeightBeingGotLike

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