I. A. Richards Quotes

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?

During the day I don't wear much makeup.

Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

The big art is our life.

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Loving a person is loving everything but the person. Being in love with that person is loving everything and that person.

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

She was a Bond girl; she couldn't have been in nerdy.

Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.

A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn't want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings.

If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.

No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

I can photograph someone if I can touch them.

You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

From the 12th Congressional District Hopeful William Jefferson Clinton during the Nixon investigations. I wanted to share some information I've turned up regarding two of your Clinton quotes.

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

I'm free of hypochondria-- although I've got everything else.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives energy. Energy gives life. Life lifts you over the bar.

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.