Lionel Quotes

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

My motivation comes from playing the game I love.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

Like I've said many times before, I'm always more likely to remember goals for their importance rather than if they're beautiful or not. Goals scored in finals, for example.

My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.

For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.

We know that we are close to making history.

Integrity is the core of our character.

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.

I always had the same style of play. I didn't really worry about people kicking me.

It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

You know as a player that you won’t have many opportunities to play in World Cups - so you have to take them when you can.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

I use Herbalife products on and off the field for energy and focus. That way I can play my best game

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

NO MATTER WHAT YOU ACHIEVE, EVERY SEASON IS A NEW SEASON. WHAT YOU ACHIEVED THE SEASON BEFORE IS NO LONGER RELEVANT.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.

When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

I've got a lot of ham in me.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.