PJ Harvey Quotes

It was not war, it was murder.

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

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.

No business, no movement, no activity on the part of man or a group of men can become any greater than the thinking minds and consciousness of the people who are back of the movement.

If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in

‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

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

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

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.

Don't water your weeds.

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

It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.

Anyone can sleep with a guy in 24-48 hours, but you're sending the wrong signal to the guy if you do that.

I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.

I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.

The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.

The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

I'm a benevolent dictator.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

Ideas without action are worthless.

Don't confuse visibility with credibility.

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

What could you accomplish if no one told you it was impossible?

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

Success is the sum of details.

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.

If he hasn't lined up the who he is, the what he does, and the how much he makes in the way that he sees fit, he can't possibly be to you what he wants to be.

Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.

Never take an elevator in city hall.

Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.

We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I'm saying to women is, "Okay. If it's a game, here are the rules that we play by".

All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.