Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the stor...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT As long as they say bullpen in St. Louis, then I'm all for it. 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 Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
RUFUS 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 I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of a...
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is ali...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to tho...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible le...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Monta...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going t...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wr...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland ...
RUFUS 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 There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Let the little fairy in you fly!
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better ...
RUFUS 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 I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and t...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once yo...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughte...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to bel...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific th...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It sto...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
RUFUS 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 like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a s...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
RUFUS 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 made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away.
RUFUS 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 There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie indust...
RUFUS 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 ...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT There are some incredible swings this season. More so than I've ever seen.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT They're (Wake Forest) going to have a terrific year, and obviously this is a great confidence builde...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT The only thing I would say is that when you play Wake, you have to pick your poison. We tried to clo...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT The biggest thing, when you play teams like this, you've got to stand in the middle of the ring. You...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT Love is not a victory march, its a cold and its a broken hallelujah
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I am disappointed that my parents didn't give birth to a porn star
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the truimph of good ove...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT This song kinda matches this place,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Everything's been fair game in our family,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT His ankle is really not swollen, but we have to get it evaluated, both he and Marlon.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that p...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Dinner at eight was okaybefore the toast full of gleams.It was great until those old magazinesgot us...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But re...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT “It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.”
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions som...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prim...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT 'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'!
W.O. WAINWRIGHT I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I woul...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced m...
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT I certainly hope it will do what people say that it will do,
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT Dinner at eight was okay
before the toast full of gleams.
It was great until those old magaz...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT 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 Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our ...
GENERAL JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA