St. Vincent Quotes

Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but—much like golf—turns out it’s all in the swing.

Come on, Kaylee, before I choke on testosterone and melodrama.

He’s like the Rasputin of reapers.

What if the house catches fire?” “Roast marshmallows. And if it floods, you’ll go down with the ship. If there’s a tornado, I’ll meet both you and this house in Oz, after my shift. Got it?

I don't have you, and without you, it feels like what I do have doesn't matter.

How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?

All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.

I love Robert Fripp. You know what I really appreciate about Robert Fripp? He always dresses appropriately for the occasion. When he's on stage, he's a Dapper Dan.

Your skin's so fair its not fair

Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community binds it indissolubly to God.

Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.

Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

I'm a Prada freak and I think they have great eyewear. Even though I don't need glasses, I use them as a fashion accessory.

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.

I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

Cast from your heart the bitterness.

[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.

You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.

In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.

God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the spirit of Our Lord.

I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others.

His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.

I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.

I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.

Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.

I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold.

To know life, one must love many things.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

It is good to love many things

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.