Dire Straits Music Quotes

#1. My favourite dish is pollo ajillo; my favourite drink is a good Rioja with it. And as for my favourite music, oh God - there's so many things I like. Well, I'd say it's 'Walk of Life' by Dire Straits.

Stephen Lang

#2. Color of gold. I have short black hair and green eyes;

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#3. Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside.

Deepak Chopra

#4. A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

Henri Matisse

#5. And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.

Linus Torvalds

#6. My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'

Nile Rodgers

#7. She had another English word. She carried it all the way down the corridor.

Monica Ali

#8. Yet again, Matt pulled another rabbit out of his hat and got a fire for us.

Joe Teti

#9. Let Them Eat My A** Like A Cupcake

Nicki Minaj

#10. Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.

Bonnie Raitt

#11. You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works - you're saying something about yourself that begs a conversation and that's what the users are there for.

Christian Rudder

#12. Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

John Crowe Ransom

#13. As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

Yolanda Adams

#14. While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Mark Knopfler

#15. Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

George Crabbe

#16. Just because you've read someone's Facebook status doesn't mean you're truly in touch with that person.

George Wallace

#17. Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a form of injury to the brain and body, and even as a variant of castration.

Naomi Wolf

#18. I think with every writer there are two people there.

Hugh Leonard

#19. It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

Jean Cocteau