Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Eminem

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Henry David Thoreau

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

Henry David Thoreau

The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you.

Henry David Thoreau

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

Jeff Tweedy

I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.

Jeff Garcia

I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

Jean de La Fontaine

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.