Adam Clayton Quotes

#1. The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.

Adam Clayton

#2. One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.

Kevin Allen

#3. Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.

Adam Clayton

#4. If i could have sung it would be a very sad song.

Karen Foxlee

#5. But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ...

Vita Sackville-West

#6. Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. Honestly, darling," she said. "Do you even look in a mirror before you walk out the door? Your hair's a mess."
He dodged her as she reached toward his head. "Are you kidding? I spend hours in front of the mirror to make it look this way.

Richelle Mead

#8. There is no future for a people who deny their past.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#9. I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

Adam Clayton Powell III

#10. I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.

Janet McTeer

#11. Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.

Demetri Martin

#12. You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

Adam Clayton

#13. There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

Adam Clayton

#14. The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#15. Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#16. It's never the right time to take a particular stand.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#17. From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

Adam Clayton

#18. The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.

Adam Clayton

#19. Unless man is commited to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labours in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality

Adam Clayton Powell III

#20. I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.

Adam Clayton

#21. You get to decide what to worship.

David Foster Wallace

#22. I am a mystic. I believe in hearing the inaudible and touching the intangible and seeing the invisible.

Adam Clayton Powell III

#23. Jem, see if you can stand in Bob Ewell's shoes a minute. I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial, if he had any to begin with. The man had to have some kind of comeback, his kind always does.

Harper Lee

#24. Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

Rachel Cusk

#25. I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

Bruce Boxleitner

#26. For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.

Adam Clayton

#27. I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

Adam Clayton

#28. I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#29. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

Debbie Harry

#30. I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

Adam Clayton

#31. Mix a conviction with a man and ...

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#32. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

Adam Clayton

#33. If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

Adam Clayton

#34. I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

Adam Clayton

#35. A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Adam Clayton

#36. Self-preservation is an art and I a masterpiece.

Sonya Vatomsky

#37. The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#38. I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.

Adam Clayton

#39. A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.

Shams Tabrizi

#40. We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.