Al Stone Quotes

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

High school was great when it ended.

I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

We do what we can. The results are none of our business.

History repeats herself.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

Integrity pays, but not in cash.

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

There's always a silver lining to every cloud and everything has to happen for a reason and if everything's really challenging, then you can make it into a positive.

When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.

I would never want something I'm wearing or the way I'm dancing or something to overshadow what I'm doing. I'd rather grab people's attention with my voice.

I feel like I'm a quick learner and I'm also very quick to forget. That's why I can't play an instrument because I can't bloody remember it.

When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.

I like to dip in and out of all sorts of different things. God, if I was asked to be in a show, like a real show, I would be so up for doing that.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

I never pay a fortune for clothes.

I just wear what I think looks nice.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.

I've got a checklist of things I want - including a Brit, a Grammy, an Oscar and a white poodle. Sometimes it gets lonely, and I want a baby too! I'm ticking things off the list.

There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.

Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives.

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I’ve never dreamed of becoming a model. As a child I was bullied and insulted as ugly