Top 61 Croce Quotes
#1. I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.
Raymond Chandler
#2. In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything.
Paul Stookey
#3. My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth.
Mario Puzo
#4. Borrowing a line from Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," Watts dubbed Ritter the Junkyard Dog - and, ever the literalist, gave him a dog collar and junk cart.
David Shoemaker
#5. When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old '60s songs. She loves songwriters from the '70s that I hate, like Jim Croce and James Taylor, and she loves Stevie Nicks and old jazz classics.
Denis Leary
#7. Anything can be worked out, between anyone, at anytime, when you want the outcome bad enough.
Pat Croce
#8. If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.
Arlene Croce
#9. He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog.
Jim Croce
#10. This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.
Benedetto Croce
#11. It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.
Arlene Croce
#12. I have a really small rear-view mirror in my life. I look at the rear-view mirror for memories and learning experiences, but I've got a big front windshield and I'm looking at right now. I've got so many projects on my plate.
Pat Croce
#13. Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.
Jim Croce
#14. Lost my ideals in that tunnel of time.
Jim Croce
#15. Moving ahead, so life won't pass me by.
Jim Croce
#16. If you dig it, do it. If you really dig it, do it twice.
Jim Croce
#17. I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind.
Jim Croce
#18. My only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend, never really was a friend at all. I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideas in that long tunnel of time. And I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again
Jim Croce
#19. If you don't like what you're getting, then change what you're doing. It's up to you.
Pat Croce
#20. If you want different, you have to think and act different.
Pat Croce
#21. The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
Benedetto Croce
#22. I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Jim Croce
#23. She might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that.
Jim Croce
#24. There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.
Jim Croce
#25. They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was genius.
Jim Croce
#26. Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here.
Jim Croce
#27. If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you.
Jim Croce
#28. Refrain from allowing your mind to wander toward other people's goals or to focus away from your own.
Pat Croce
#30. If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.
Jim Croce
#31. Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.
Arlene Croce
#34. After all, it's what we've done that makes us what we are.
Jim Croce
#35. To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.
Arlene Croce
#36. Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now.
Pat Croce
#37. I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am.
Jim Croce
#38. It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
Arlene Croce
#40. I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.
Jim Croce
#41. Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.
Jim Croce
#42. Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.
Arlene Croce
#43. I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels.
Jim Croce
#44. Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.
Benedetto Croce
#45. He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.
Jim Croce
#46. Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.
Jim Croce
#47. If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day
Jim Croce
#48. Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human ... No people will be truly free till all are free.
Benedetto Croce
#49. Nobody loves a fat girl, but oh how a fat girl can love.
Jim Croce
#50. Nobody ever had a rainbow baby until they had the rain
Jim Croce
#51. If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.
Jim Croce
#52. Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.
Arlene Croce
#53. The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past ... The writing of history liberates us from history.
Benedetto Croce
#54. Just get out of the way. Just GO. Forget the corporate rules where you have to sit and meet. Forget that. What's the goal? OK. How you going to get there? Now let's charge! GO!
Pat Croce
#55. A masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
Arlene Croce
#56. A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.
Jim Croce
#57. History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.
Benedetto Croce
#58. Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same.
Jim Croce
#59. Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be repeated that feeling without image is blind, and image without feeling is void.
Benedetto Croce
#60. Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.
Arlene Croce
#61. We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.
Benedetto Croce
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