C.J. Anderson Quotes

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

I've always been fond of acoustic music.

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

I can't stop once I've started.... it stings!

Student is #1. If a student comes to me and needs an hour after class of my time, I am going to give him everything without hesitation.

Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.

I'm a very pragmatic soul. I'm part of the business and I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to being an over-believer in spiritual or in paranormal matters.

When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?

The rain sounded like it was washing the whole world away.

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

There are times for inner changes. Be ready for the choice!

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.

This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.

Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

I love X-Games music.

The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing.

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.

Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

There is nothing enduring in the life of a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.

I don't know how to let you go/ You are so deep down in my soul.

That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.

When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity

I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.

Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.