T.A. Richards Quotes

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was talking law.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change.

Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.

I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

Songwriting's a weird game.

The march is a way to get in celebration mode.

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

The stronger a brand’s point of view, the greater its voltage.

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! You are what you think you are.

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.

Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.

Virat Kohli is an ODI batting legend

The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.

I have an awfully good life.

If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition.

President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.

Wayne Curtis is one of our very best writers!

The lies are in different places.

I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.

I don't trust you with my shoe; I wouldn't trust you with an old pair of socks.

I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

If we were to do as well as we know, our salvation would be secure.