PJ Harvey Quotes

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.

What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.

I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

The only ones to get hurt on a roller coaster are the jumpers.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state and physical state. It is perhaps the most important tool, and it's one whose importance is underestimated in the West.

For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.

Not to decide is to decide.

The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

Good business should contain something for both parties.

Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.

It's a woman's right to know a man's intentions upfront. Because, once you get emotionally attached to a man and you sleep with him, it's too late.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

The number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

Love is never going to go out of style, a man is always going to want to have the love of a woman. She just needs a game plan to work out how to get his love.

You don't just sit in the car and let some guy drive you through life, wasting your time.

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.

Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

Don't water your weeds.

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and you will accomplish your object.

When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.