The best Quotes by Patti Smith

The best Quotes by Patti Smith

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, and author who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.

If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.
I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.
The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

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Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
And she was blinded by the light
Oh, cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright
Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the Light, Album: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark, Album: Born in the U.S.A.
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just coverin' up
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A., Album: Born in the U.S.A.
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.
No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.
Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11
5
There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.
Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man
2
If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York
Frank Sinatra - New York, New York
2
Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.
Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3
2
You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
1
Why are there so many Latina's in Illinois?
Because that's where the Chica go.
Take me away, like I overdosed on cocaine
Or take me away like a bullet from Kurt Cobain, suicide
I'm from a windy city like Do or Die
The Game - My Life, Album: LAX
You can leave Chicago, but it will never leave you.
They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Illinois - and that's pretty much the same thing.
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.
22
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.
16
The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
16
Let's play it f*cking loud!
1
You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
12
He not busy being born is busy dying.
1
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
2
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew - 7,12
9
Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it.
Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff,
Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough. [...]
Be bloody, bold, and resolute: laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of womas born
Shall harm Macbeth. [...]
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are.
Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him.
3
There are more things in Heaven and Earth
Than are dream't of in your Philosophy
10
Hell is empty, devils are here!
13
Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.
9
For women are as Roses, whose fairr flowre,
Being once displaid, doth fall that verie howre.
3
Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but love.
10
It is not down on any map; true places never are.
One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024

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