Backspacer Quotes

#1. Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music ... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.

Jeff Ament

#2. Some tell me I'll break my ankle on my high heels - but I live in them. I'm known for doing speed dashes and leaps and bounds in heels. No problem.

Kylie Bax

#3. God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.

Philip K. Dick

#4. Inner Knowledge
You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

Idries Shah

#5. For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

Joan Didion

#6. I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Ben Nicholson

#7. The one thing that you can be sure about of what mankind has learned over the centuries ... is that he has paid attention to none of it.

Tonny K. Brown

#8. Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

Stefan Zweig

#9. You are cordially invited to go fuck yourself.

A.E. Samaan

#10. I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth ... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.

Wolfgang Puck

#11. Persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.

Robert B. Cialdini

#12. Nature forgot to shade him off, I think ... A little too boisterous
like the sea. A little too
vehement
like a bull who has made up his mind to consider every
colour scarlet. But I grant a sledge-hammering sort of merit in him!

Charles Dickens

#13. I try to do Pilates when I can all year around and I also like to swim a lot. I also have a trainer that kicks my butt when it's needed.

Behati Prinsloo