St. Vincent Quotes

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

I encourage everyone out there to get involved.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

I never, never ever make a charge without supporting it. You may not agree with me, but I always offer tremendous amount of support.

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

I've never tried to be something I'm not.

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another.

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.

Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends you, or which come to you from within and without.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

The kingdom of God is peace in the Holy Spirit; He will reign in you if your heart is at peace. So, be at peace, Mademoiselle, and you will honor in a sovereign way the God of peace and love.

[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!

In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck.

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.