R.Chapman Quotes

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

Bring out... The Comfy Chair!!!!

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

Start with the soul and end with the sale. Not the other way around.

Dog is God spelled backward.

I'm very emotional. That's why I wear shades a lot.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

The one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision everyday.

I am not minimizing emotions. Emotions are an important part of life.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

An ill weed grows apace.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.

News as wholesome as the morning air.

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Love being different, embrace it, share it, live it because being different is not a curse but a gift we all posses that defines who we are and makes the world a better place.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Words writ in waters.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.

Only the ones who believe ever see what they dream, ever dream what comes true.

People fall in love and swear they are so sure, then they turn around and say it's over. I never trusted love to come any closer till the moment you were mine.

I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective

People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.