Quotes about Things, page 26

If it hadn't been for some disastrous things happening in Europe, I wouldn't be here to tell the tale.

Quote by Billy Joel about things

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Quote by Billy Joel about things

There's a certain sadness because things didn't go the way I wanted them to go.

Quote by Billy Joel about things

We experience difficulties, weakness, failures and sadness, but we also celebrate joys and successes - these are the things we express in music.

Quote by Billy Joel about things

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

Quote by Billy Joel about things

And I've been sober now and clean for 11 years. And it was the best thing I ever did.

Quote by Elton John about things

And if you're a journalist, surely the thing that you should be writing is the truth, or at least checking your facts.

Quote by Elton John about things

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

Quote by Elton John about things

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

Quote by Elton John about things

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

Quote by Elton John about things

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

Quote by Elton John about things

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

Quote by Elton John about things

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things