Rufus Wainwright
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS RICK RIORDAN T-PAIN I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it&... ENYA MATTHEW PERRY I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every... HAILEY BALDWIN When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki... TAYLOR WILSON RICK RIORDAN COLE SWINDELL I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS LUCAN LUCAN It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used... RONNIE WOOD Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian R... CASEY ABRAMS J. D. SOUTHER BAT FOR LASHES Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."GORDON KORMAN VANESSA CARLTON SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and ... AUBREY PLAZA CORY MONTEITH I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &... FEFE DOBSON It's kind of like when you have guests coming over to your house, and you haven't really pic... CHARLES SOULE A lot of my fans wanted a kind of 'in your face' song. They wanted a song that exemplifies m... LA'PORSHA RENAE DEL CLOSE MAHERSHALA ALI When it comes time to where the new album gets closer, I start singing the song a cappella; I'll... BRETT ELDREDGE LUKE BRYAN 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit. YANDEL EMINEM You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well,' a... ZAC BROWN I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL LUCAS TILL There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.&#... BARBARA KRUGER I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's... KIM GORDON I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. I... ASHLEY TISDALE For those that don't know much about 'American Idiot' or Green Day, just know that it... JAKE EPSTEIN I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... LESTER HOLT I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from... ROBERT PALMER GERMANY KENT TAYLOR SWIFT JENSON BUTTON ALAN MOORE ADAM DRIVER GERMANY KENT WHOOPI GOLDBERG It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene ... THOMAS HADEN CHURCH TODD RUNDGREN ROSE MCGOWAN I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time. LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that ti... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another par... ALEX GARLAND Well, I think it's kind of interesting how the Osmond name has been really seen on both sides of... DONNY OSMOND CARRIE UNDERWOOD It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I fin... BRUCE COCKBURN ISABELLA ROSSELLINI LOUIS SACHAR I kind of lived by the code of 'I'm going to be a hard-working guy.' And no matter how s... GEORGE KARL HARRY STYLES It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I&... NEIL YOUNG TOM PETTY I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album. TANYA TUCKER LEA THOMPSON The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone sayi... BEN SCHOTT In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's somethi... DWIGHT SCHULTZ I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not t... RANDY HARRISON 'Try Again' - every time I hear that song, it just brings a smile to your face. When you'... ALEXANDRA SHIPP OCTAVIA BUTLER I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for m... QUIARA ALEGRIA HUDES LYNN COADY It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happene... PENELOPE SPHEERIS DRAKE On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provinci... STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS PATTI SMITH SAMMY CAHN I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ DAVID BYRNE You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in eith... GARRET DILLAHUNT LUPE FIASCO I love playing Rick Ross' 'Port of Miami' album. Jeezy's 'Thug Motivation 101... TYRON WOODLEY I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON I think there's a, you know, certain kind of freedom for me when I get on stage. Maybe it's ... LIV WARFIELD I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's co... LANGHORNE SLIM Single Record of the Year and New Vocalist were such a blessing to see, but when I saw that I was up... THOMAS RHETT
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I still think of myself as a starter.... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I think I can do way better. I'm not real pleased with today. I got out of some situations and pitch... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I think the years of toiling around in the minors have really helped. ADAM WAINWRIGHT Today, I really struggled staying back on the rubber and getting the ball down. But when I did, you ... ADAM WAINWRIGHT It was nice of Jason to let me start that game. He didn't have to let me do that. It was nice to get... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I try to not to think about the pressure. I don't want any more pressure on me. I just want to pitch... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I learned a lot from him. ADAM WAINWRIGHT I go in thinking about whatever they'll let me do at the big-league level. You never know what happe... ADAM WAINWRIGHT For the most part my year went pretty good. I had a couple abysmal starts that really ruined my stat... ADAM WAINWRIGHT If I play a bad round, which I've been having lately, Mulder will let me have it. I've heard his who... ADAM WAINWRIGHT JOHN WAINWRIGHT The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man'... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT I love stuff as much as the next guy, but Ive come to understand that, regardless of the cost of a... COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even th... COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Even the great get greater by doing more of it. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Reading is no substitute for action. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT That's probably how dentistry was in the 1800s, before they had anesthetics. That's how I felt. JERRY WAINWRIGHT We're not mature enough yet. But to be 7-4 [with our strong] schedule ... speaks an awful lot about ... JERRY WAINWRIGHT I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying th... MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he ... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT We never gave ourselves a chance to win. But I don't think we have despair in our game; it's frustra... JERRY WAINWRIGHT Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth... ADAM WAINWRIGHT Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done t... JERRY WAINWRIGHT They humbled us on the glass. JERRY WAINWRIGHT The game was dictated at the free-throw line. You can't miss 11 and win at this level. JERRY WAINWRIGHT Sammy played 38 minutes against their best player and never once [complained]. He did everything we ... JERRY WAINWRIGHT You're going to be in front of full arenas from now on. I think you have to make that another whole ... 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RUFUS SEWELL RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I c... RUFUS SEWELL ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole glo... RUFUS KING ALLAN RUFUS I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays... RUFUS SEWELL RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE The key part of your brand is a quality product. Creating exceptional content is the number one thin... RUFUS GRISCOM I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and... RUFUS SEWELL Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people. RUFUS JONES The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all. ANNELI RUFUS People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got ... RUFUS SEWELL Well, thing is, after they cancelled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that ... RUFUS SEWELL We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Ov... ANNELI RUFUS It has been said 'keep your friends close and your enemies closer'. This statement is most assuredly... RUFUS RHODEN This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control. RUFUS KING I'm not crazy, I'm sanity challenged. RUFUS RHODEN I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I ... RUFUS SEWELL We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called.... ANNELI RUFUS And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the ... ANNELI RUFUS Life is like a box of chocolates, it mostly tastes like shit. RUFUS RHODEN There are two kinds of people I don't like being around, stupid people and ugly people. I guess that... RUFUS RHODEN RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE Good or evil? It's really just a matter of perspective. RUFUS RHODEN The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the ... RUFUS JONES Feast of Mark the Evangelist The reason why we can hope to find God is that He is here, engaged al... RUFUS JONES ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does - when you can't get enough of it. ANNELI RUFUS Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob ... ANNELI RUFUS I'd like an omelet named after me. RUFUS SEWELL When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so m... RUFUS SEWELL Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I&#... RUFUS SEWELL I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got ... RUFUS SEWELL ALLAN RUFUS I think if you lower the limits on money it would encourage our elected officials to get into their ... RUFUS JONES The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
[Lat., Efficacior omni arte immine... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sed... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
[Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subes... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an
unchangeable law through the eternal ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
[Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum inc... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mor... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one
cautious enough to resist the effects of ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting;
gratitude for benefits eternal.
[Lat.,... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS But few prize honour more than money. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntu... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainl... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I we... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school. LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego ... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sens... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destr... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit lik... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS RUFUS M. JONES QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS RUFUS M. JONES Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our ... GENERAL JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT A book is the only immortality. RUFUS CHOATE EDWARD YOUNG
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... 
I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ... 
I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you w... 
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... 
We titled it, 'You Should Be Here,' for one, because just how special that song is, and I th... 
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. 
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. 
A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dix... 
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that... 
I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It&#... 
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. 
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. 
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. 
Maybe it'll be like 'The Simpsons,' and everybody will remain unchanged. Maybe that'... 
The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a mome... 
There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just lis... 
It's kind of like a college degree... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you ge... 
It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of ... 
I've kind of been in a video game, I've kind of been an action figure. It was actually a Bar... 
Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of... 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anyt... 
When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I ... 
I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, &... 
I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad. 
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... 
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. ... 
'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything mysel... 
I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I... 
I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be abl... 
Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there'... 
When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It ... 
You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th... 
When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So ... 
'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I&... 
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there'... 
It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go... 
I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authen... 
I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was st... 
I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to... 
Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don'... 
It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know... 
Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the stor... 
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. 
You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, ... 
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. 
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I
keep step to the music of the Unio... 
We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution. 
Life is like a sandwich!
Life is like a game of chess.
A book is the only immortality. 
Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace!
Fear makes men believe the worst. 
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. 
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. 