Harking Back Quotes

#1. When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

Alan Hansen

#2. Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.

Robyn Davidson

#3. In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Bat For Lashes

#4. Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . , he shall know .

Oswald Chambers

#5. All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks.

Michel Houellebecq

#6. The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.

Terence McKenna

#7. Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

Oswald Chambers

#8. The mountain music ... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

Ethan Coen

#9. Don't send a man to the grocery store.

Jeanne Robertson

#10. What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?

J.M. Coetzee

#11. I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

Eddie Murphy

#12. Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

Bill Cosby

#13. You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"

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Veronica Roth

#14. And if you want to know the feeling I'm talking about, run your own fingers slowly through your hair, and pretend they're someone else's.

Pleasefindthis

#15. Why is it?.. I'm so sad and so lonely. But the tears just won't come.

Hiro Mashima

#16. No matter where life takes you ... the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find goodness in it.

Susan Vreeland

#17. If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.

Charles Bradlaugh

#18. Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Jeff Koons

#19. Kai frowned at her. "Who are you?"
She brightened. "Oh, I'm Iko! You may not remember me, but we met at the market that day you brought in the android, only I was about this tall"
she held her hand at hip height
"and shaped kind of like an enormous pear, and significantly more pale.

Marissa Meyer

#20. I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

Hari Kunzru

#21. Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

Freddie Mercury

#22. We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.

Kevin Powell