I. A. Richards Quotes

If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.

Some things get better with age. Like me.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

[joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

I'm an unpure purist, something like that.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.

I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

The gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to plants.

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.

Focus on the victory instead of on everything that could go wrong.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

My life is full of broken halos.

I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.