I. A. Richards Quotes

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'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

A book is a machine to think with.

I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

A road to a friend's house is never long.

You are what you think you are.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

I think we're all fighting for the day in which partisan politics is no longer something that is used to attack women's access to health care.

No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.

I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

I love watching Virat Kohli bat. I love his aggression and serious passion that I used to have. He reminds me of myself.

[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

In a town full of phonies, I'm not afraid to be me.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

What is life but playing with time?

Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.