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Patti Smith Quotes

The thing is that any sophistication I have, aesthetically, comes from 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar.' In the '60s, I never missed an issue, even if I had to steal to get them.

Patti Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 30, 1946

Topics

Missed Never Get Even Sophistication

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

Jim Fowler

Nature Future Live Respect Challenge

Jesus was not this wimpy little guy who walked around munching sunflower seeds and saying nice things to people. The real Jesus of the Bible said, 'Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.' That is: Obey the government.

Robert Jeffress

Government People Seeds Saying Bible

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

Mencius

Path Time Mountains Short Trail

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.

John Prescott

Find Down Too Much Done Meet Land

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'

Simon McBurney

Words Impossible You Alive Go Now

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

Tom Glazer

I Am Writing Career Sometimes Will

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

Brad Holland

Walls People Rich Rich People Used

In a sense, all Americans are battle-born. Our ancestors came here for something better.

Brandon Flowers

Better Ancestors Something Here Our

The first six years of a child's life, it is like a tape recorder is on. Everything it sees, smells, touches, experiences in any way, whatever it hears, is being downloaded into the brain before the consciousness of the child is even made apparent.

Bruce Lipton

Life Child Brain Way First Whatever

Definitely was eating bad after surgery. I was overweight by, like, 20, 30 pounds.

Anthony Bennett

Eating Bad Surgery Like Overweight

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

Win Butler

People Go Done Everything Nowhere

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

Lionel Blue

Old Friends Friends Die You Become