FastSaying

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.


Lorde

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?
CATHERINE FISHER There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of m...
OPRAH WINFREY There is no identification of this individual put out. If I would have done it, my picture would be ...
JIM CARTER In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise the...
NAFTALI BENNETT He would probably be up here right next to me. I would say he would probably be critical because tha...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people e...
DAVID BOWIE It's probably something that our guys would not be in favor of, but I think there would have to be m...
DAVID MCCLUNE When I started my YouTube channel in 2010, I never imagined that one day it would be the most subscr...
PEWDIEPIE I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people...
BJORK I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There w...
JACQUELINE CAREY I would have to have someone kind of do the math for me and tell me, explain to me, how it would be ...
JOSH WHITE In a perfect world it would be you and me against the world. But we are not living in a perfect worl...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE He does have the authority to do it and probably should do it. He probably would get total legislati...
SKIP CAMPBELL When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simulta...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI There would have to be some upsets. Probably a couple of teams with byes would have to get knocked o...
LARRY DAVIS I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of respons...
BOB CROSBY I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were somet...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say ...
PARKER STEVENSON They said there would be a lot of bloodshed and I would be one of the first to go.
EDWARD CARABALLO This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a...
WERLEY NORTREUS I'll never be in great shape. Mentally, I think I am tougher. Does that mean I am going to go out an...
KEVIN MILLAR One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in findi...
JAMES PAYN In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.
MOBY If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she'...
ACTION BRONSON I think (Stewart's show) probably hurt mine and I sort of predicted that it would, because there was...
DONALD TRUMP I think (Stewart's show) probably hurt mine and I sort of predicted that it would, because there was...
DONALD TRUMP I don't know what's going to happen. The business always gets in the way of basketball. If there was...
JASON KIDD 'If the world had no feeling, then there would be no suffering.. - the world would be such a better ...
PORTIA HIGGS If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would ha...
MATTIE STEPANEK If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
WALSHY FIRE My perfect bag would be practical but also have the stylish element to it; it would be bold and colo...
ERIN O'CONNOR My perfect bag would be practical but also have the stylish element to it; it would be bold and colo...
ERIN O'CONNOR We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one l...
PATRICK NESS I've never been an actor who goes and really gets off on being nuts and never gets out of it. There ...
SALLY FIELD If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distres...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then...
JAY MCINERNEY Greta made it clear (to Simpson) that there would be no restrictions and there would be a full range...
TOM JOHNSON Then you would have acted to change history, but you would have replaced one history with another. Y...
DEXTER PALMER Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character)

I would be true, for there are those who trust me; JOHN C. MAXWELL Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her me...
JACQUELINE CAREY It hit me when we got out there what we were trying to do. It hit me, and I never got through the me...
JENNY PETRIE If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
POLISH PROVERB If I could be any flavor of ice cream, I would be spinach so no one would eat me.
JOSH HUFFORD The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER I knew from the start that your loyalty would get you killed. I just never thought it would be your ...
SUSAN EE If I had any humility I would be perfect
TED TURNER It would be a disappointment, with the team we're throwing out there, not to be competitive and win ...
PAUL LO DUCA Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I ...
HOWARD ARNOLD WALTER If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in ...
BRYCE COURTENAY I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myse...
SUSAN ORLEAN There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.
AUBREY PLAZA MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE

Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether...
SUZY KASSEM Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's ...
ALLEN IVERSON If you ask anyone on any street corner in the world what the Soviet Union looks like, they would pro...
RICK SMOLAN And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The ...
MARY BALOGH I would love to be on Broadway. I would love to do a three-month run, similar to how celebrities do ...
ROCHELLE AYTES In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would kno...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I n...
GAYLORD PERRY It’s too dangerous…I would never be able to forgive myself if something happened to him. I would...
ASHLEY EARLEY I'll be honest, those are all right pictures. But had I known that 4 million people would have seen ...
PETE WENTZ For two years I would just make that. I would concentrate on making the perfect omelet... It was imp...
MARIO BATALI If this storm wasn't out there, the market would probably be behaving much better.
JAY SUSKIND I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
SHELBY FOOTE I knew there was that possibility there, that I would get a shot to be in the rotation. Now I've jus...
AARON HEILMAN For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be...
RACHEL MCADAMS The Finns are not by nature impulsive, ... Any final price tag for Lucent probably would be around $...
PAUL SAGAWA There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never ...
MELISSA ETHERIDGE We thought there were probably a lot of people who wanted to do something. We thought by getting out...
DEVYN PARNES I could never be at an orgy. I just wouldn't be good at it. I'd probably find myself there yelling, ...
JOHN BUSH Any time there are disruptions, it would be a concern.
DANIEL NGWEPE I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dyi...
MADISON DAVENPORT I just knew that this would be the last time I would play and I tried to do the best I could out the...
BECCA MCARDLE If there were something that I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I've never had a problem with that. It's flattering to be wanted, and certainly I would never stand ...
BILL COWHER Pele is the greatest player in football history, and there would only be one Pele in the world.
RONALDO I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
CARLA BRUNI I never looked at it that way, that I would be the first black champion. It would just be cool to be...
ANTRON BROWN I saw it was a little crumbly out there and I knew that Damien would be looking for the barrel and l...
ANDY IRONS I think we'd probably be the natural team. It would be us or the Dallas Cowboys , and I don't think ...
DENNIS GREEN In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's emplo...
HAMISH LINKLATER I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid ...
JOHN KNOWLES If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritu...
HENRY REED If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving...
KID ROCK It's not only about the cost. There are monies available to do drug testing on the student populatio...
EDDIE BONINE I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while ...
JASON RITTER I guess it is disappointing that there are people out there that would do it,
GLENN MCGRATH Rubble pile asteroids are something we always figured would be out there, and suddenly, 'voila,' the...
ANDY CHENG And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality th...
GRAHAM GREENE If there is one you had to single out, it would be Lennon.
ETHAN RUSSELL To be honest, I really don't know how the Vikings will do. I would really like to see how they handl...
RANDY MOSS There were a lot of things out there that made me fairly certain that there would be rough spots. St...
ED WADE I don't think we would limit her. If the swelling goes down and the function is there, she would be ...
GEORGIA FISCHER Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded.
"You would never do any work." (Nate's mom)
"Soun...
BRANDON MULL The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I w...
JOHNNY DEPP I think at first it was not a perfect experience. There was zero student participation. He would pla...
BETH PUCHTEL D.C. would be the Hong Kong of America. Income and wealth would go up so much that there would be a ...
DANIEL MITCHELL I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foo...
WILLIE AAMES

More Lorde

I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a l...
LORDE The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.
LORDE My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homewo...
LORDE I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for a...
LORDE I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of...
LORDE I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
LORDE I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural a...
LORDE I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. ...
LORDE When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really m...
LORDE I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the ...
LORDE Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Y...
LORDE I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from....
LORDE I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I&#...
LORDE Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything g...
LORDE I've been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it&#...
LORDE Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear ...
LORDE I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and peop...
LORDE People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the inform...
LORDE I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. An...
LORDE Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens o...
LORDE It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to conve...
LORDE I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,
So there.
LORDE I actually love Twitter and Instagram. I do think it's so strange to think that 20 years ago, pe...
LORDE With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly thei...
LORDE You're the only friend I need
Sharing beds like little kids
And laughing 'til our ribs g...
LORDE I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switc...
LORDE I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me perfor...
LORDE I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that.
LORDE I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland...
LORDE My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r...
LORDE I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
LORDE We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, ...
LORDE If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.
LORDE You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and t...
AUDRE LORDE Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political w...
AUDRE LORDE I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not pr...
AUDRE LORDE When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less an...
AUDRE LORDE Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs o...
AUDRE LORDE Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expe...
AUDRE LORDE Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehuman...
AUDRE LORDE and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we ...
AUDRE LORDE Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs o...
AUDRE LORDE Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ...
AUDRE LORDE . . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves...
AUDRE LORDE When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and...
AUDRE LORDE I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
AUDRE LORDE But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women...
AUDRE LORDE I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDE Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDE I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things tha...
AUDRE LORDE Revolution is not a onetime event.
AUDRE LORDE Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the found...
AUDRE LORDE I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so ter...
AUDRE LORDE Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDE We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what ...
AUDRE LORDE When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid...
AUDRE LORDE In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequent...
AUDRE LORDE Art is not living. It is the use of living.
AUDRE LORDE Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to ...
AUDRE LORDE Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDE The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDE I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made ve...
AUDRE LORDE Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each o...
AUDRE LORDE Your silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDE The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
AUDRE LORDE In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and gro...
AUDRE LORDE If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for ...
AUDRE LORDE There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDE Our visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDE The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between th...
AUDRE LORDE When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less an...
AUDRE LORDE It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate th...
AUDRE LORDE When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are ...
AUDRE LORDE The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reac...
AUDRE LORDE Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
AUDRE LORDE When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop tho...
AUDRE LORDE The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
AUDRE LORDE Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge
AUDRE LORDE When I use my strength in the service of may vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afrai...
AUDRE LORDE If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and e...
AUDRE LORDE Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away...
AUDRE LORDE There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, w...
AUDRE LORDE The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we l...
AUDRE LORDE For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily...
AUDRE LORDE We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the ...
AUDRE LORDE The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused...
AUDRE LORDE My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken,...
AUDRE LORDE Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...
AUDRE LORDE Who I am is what fulfills me and what fulfills the vision I have of a world.
AUDRE LORDE Silence has never brought us anything of worth
AUDRE LORDE As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses an...
AUDRE LORDE I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not e...
AUDRE LORDE I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the ...
AUDRE LORDE It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color wil...
AUDRE LORDE There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
AUDRE LORDE I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently ...
AUDRE LORDE Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it l...
AUDRE LORDE The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
AUDRE LORDE In the interests of separation, Black women have been taught to view each other as always suspect, h...
AUDRE LORDE It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a se...
AUDRE LORDE I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, t...
AUDRE LORDE What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another ...
AUDRE LORDE As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed t...
AUDRE LORDE The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat hi...
AUDRE LORDE If I participate, knowingly or otherwise, in my sister's oppression and she calls me on it, to answe...
AUDRE LORDE I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as t...
AUDRE LORDE I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had th...
AUDRE LORDE Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always ...
AUDRE LORDE ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the li...
AUDRE LORDE We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed,...
AUDRE LORDE We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak ...
AUDRE LORDE A Litany for Survival

For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon...
AUDRE LORDE In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
AUDRE LORDE When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or te...
AUDRE LORDE What better way is there to police the streets of a minority community than to turn one generation a...
AUDRE LORDE I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
AUDRE LORDE It has rained for five days
running
the world is
a round puddle
of sunless water...
AUDRE LORDE I am
the sun and moon and forever hungry
the sharpened edge
where day and night shall...
AUDRE LORDE The black unicorn was mistaken for a shadow or symbol and taken through a cold country where mist pa...
AUDRE LORDE young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily.
AUDRE LORDE I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic
AUDRE LORDE places do not change so much as what we seek in them
AUDRE LORDE I am tired of writing memorials to black men
whom I was on the brink of knowing
weary like...
AUDRE LORDE ...may I never lose that terror that keeps me brave
AUDRE LORDE see me now
your severed daughter
laughing our name into echo
all the world shall reme...
AUDRE LORDE Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
AUDRE LORDE What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow ...
AUDRE LORDE