Hansard Play Quotes

#1. As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.

Glen Hansard

#2. So now, when the people of Earth looked up into the night sky at the place where they ought to have seen the moon, they saw instead this slowly tumbling constellation of white boulders.

Neal Stephenson

#3. I was on a path. I was going to become a principal dancer. I never let my mind rest.

Misty Copeland

#4. If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government, what they're doing.

Jonathan Alter

#5. Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#6. Two weeks after the flight of the government from Naples, the French moved an army of six thousand soldiers into the city, and by late January a cabal of enlightened aristocrats and professors had engendered a monstrosity that called itself the Parthenopean or Vesuvian Republic. Most

Susan Sontag

#7. I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

Glen Hansard

#8. Nothing about my life is lucky - it's all about hard work, it is all an uphill struggle.

Emily Giffin

#9. Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Patricia Briggs

#10. We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

Marianne Williamson

#11. Innovation is any change big or small that makes a difference.

Thomas Smith

#12. Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together.

Frederick Lenz

#13. I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.

Amy Heckerling

#14. [Penn Jillette] said, 'If a truck is barreling toward you, no amount of positiveness will stop it from hitting you.' I needed to hear that I didn't have to be enthusiastic all the time. Some days you just need to be in a bad mood.

Julia Sweeney