Top 100 Hawkins Quotes
#1. You know I prefer blondes. J.T. Hawkins, Foolish Games
Leah Spiegel
#2. When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
Miles Davis
#3. I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.
Oscar Peterson
#4. A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!
Cannonball Adderley
#5. If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
Olivia Wilde
#6. I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.
Rick Danko
#7. The Gray Ghost, by Seckatary Hawkins.
Harper Lee
#8. So why were you with her?"
"She was my assignment."
"From The Eye?"
"No, from the Boy Scouts. That Witch Dating badge just kept eluding me."
Hawkins, Rachel (2011-03-01). Demonglass (Hex Hall Book 2) (p. 255). Disney. Kindle Edition.
Rachel Hawkins
#9. I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band.
Donnie Fritts
#10. Ah, said Silver, it were fortunate for me that I had Hawkins here. You would have let old john be cut to bits, and never given it a thought, doctor.
'Not a thought,' replied Dr. Livesey cheerily.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#11. There are some things people see in toilets that they wish they hadn't. What Trevor Hawkins sees might even cost him his life.
Rob Johnson
#12. The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
Taylor Hawkins
#13. Hawkins's plan to be more careful was starting to include things like "carefully brushing her off," and "carefully take her home," where he could "carefully kiss her mouth" and "carefully take her clothes off.
Tara Janzen
#14. Buried deep-deep under that teenage boy exterior, you, Sebastian Hawkins, are a sweetheart.
Nyrae Dawn
#15. One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his ... shirtless body, really.
Dave Grohl
#16. Dedication: For John, who said, "You know what this book needs? More fire. And maybe some swords." This ONE time, honey, you were right. (Rachel Hawkins)
Rachel Hawkins
#17. But as I glared up at Hawkins, I realized he was only looking down at me. "You got my attention. Now what are you going to do with it?" He said into the microphone.
Leah Spiegel
#18. Damn Frank!" he said ferociously. "Damn all Randalls! Damn Jack Randall, and damn Mary Hawkins Randall, and damn Alex Randall - er, God rest his soul, I mean," he amended hastily, crossing himself.
Diana Gabaldon
#19. I made the transition to directing documentaries with the great help of my Co-Director on The World According to Sesame Street, Linda Hawkins Costigan. She was a gracious teacher, and a wonderful collaborator.
Linda Goldstein Knowlton
#20. I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.
Stan Getz
#21. Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.
Yolanda Adams
#22. Rocky Hawkins has written a rare, fun and beautiful book. If you don't believe me, read it for yourself.
Kinky Friedman
#23. Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.
Ned Sublette
#24. When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.
John Madden
#25. Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.
Susanna Clarke
#26. As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.
Herbie Mann
#27. Long before there was Marilyn Manson, long before there was Alice Cooper, way before Ozzy Osbourne, there was Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Reverend Billy C. Wirtz
#28. William Finch, Hawkins's assistant, who is the source for the story of Akbar's concubine Anarkali, 'Pomegranate Blossom';
Alex Rutherford
#29. She lifted the book to her nose. A book had a smell more soothing than any of Mrs. Hawkins's herbs. There was nothing like a good story to take her out of a world she didn't much like.
Cindy Thomson
#30. lungful of rim block. Her senses sharpened and the urge to vomit left her at last. Hawkins heaved herself up onto her knees and sat back on
Alastair Gunn
#32. We're all dying," Sergeant Hawkins replied. "From the moment we are born, we begin our journey toward eminent death. All that matters is what we do with the time and gifts we've been given." But
Cameo Renae
#33. When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
Gerry Mulligan
#34. As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no longer feels real to you.
Paula Hawkins
#35. It doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. I feel bad, but the thing that I've done - it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me.
Paula Hawkins
#36. Or maybe they were staring at me as I tried to discreetly wipe sweat from between my breasts without appearing to get to second base with myself. Hard to say.
Rachel Hawkins
#37. Quite an impressive file you've amassed, Sophia." Clasping his hands, he added, "If Hecate offered classes in complete mayhem, I have no doubt you'd be valedictorian."
Nice to see where I got my snarkiness.
Rachel Hawkins
#38. Men are, if nothing else, predictable. Fortunately for us all, women are not.
Karen Hawkins
#39. I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
#40. I'm not even that upset about the rejection any more. What bothers me most is that I haven't got to the end of my story, and I can't start over with someone else, it's too hard.
Paula Hawkins
#41. People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
Paula Hawkins
#42. They're pretty conspicuous."
"Why? Are they green and horny?" I willed a blush away and said, "I mean, as in having horns,not ... the other.
Rachel Hawkins
#43. The men have long been unpaid and need relief.
John Hawkins
#44. She was part wide-eyed wood nymph, part awkward society miss, and - he was beginning to realize - part testy library elf.
Karen Hawkins
#45. Yeah,maybe later we can all sing a demon version of 'Kumbaya.
Rachel Hawkins
#46. What are you?
I opened my eyes gingerly. The flashlight that had blinded me was lying a few feet from my head now, which gave me just enough light to see what appeared to be a twelve-year-old girl sitting on my chest.
I'd gotten my butt handed to me by a sixth grader? That was embarrassing.
Rachel Hawkins
#47. I may be a loser, but hey, at least I'm a loser who can do magic, right?
Rachel Hawkins
#48. We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and then this brings the purpose.
David Hawkins
#49. And I have faith that you'll make a wonderful head of the Council someday, Sophie.
Yeah, except for that whole sleeping with the enemy part, I thought. Wait, not that I would actually be sleeping with ... I mean, it's a metaphor. There would only be metaphorical sleeping.
Rachel Hawkins
#50. I've often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If a
woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.
Karen Hawkins
#51. But then I think, this happens sometimes, doesn't it? People you have a history with, they won't let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can't disentangle yourself, can't set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.
Paula Hawkins
#52. At her door, Jenna stopped. "Soph, I really am
"
"Jenna, if you say sorry one more time, I'm going to punch you in your tiny pink head.
Rachel Hawkins
#53. There are times when simplicity makes a decision for you.
Karen Hawkins
#54. You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.
Jeff Hawkins
#55. Some people live their entire life not knowing who they are, others live their life thinking they are something they are not. Only a luck few are blessed enough to find themselves in someone else.
Robert Hawkins
#56. Desire, especially strong desire (e.g., cravingness), frequently blocks our getting what we want.
David R. Hawkins
#57. The only way to enhance one's power in the world is by increasing one's integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion.
David R. Hawkins
#59. From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.
Trip Hawkins
#60. America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
Taylor Hawkins
#61. Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.
Jeff Hawkins
#62. Beware a calm surface - you never know what lies beneath.
Paula Hawkins
#63. Most people managed to evade home truths with astonishing ease.
Karen Hawkins
#64. As for Demonologies: A History, I was beginning to think it would have been better employed as a doorstop.
Rachel Hawkins
#65. Cal curled his fingers around mine and raised my left hand to the brownish flower. There was a callus on his thumb that should have been irritating against my skin.
Rachel Hawkins
#66. I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
Taylor Hawkins
#67. I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who have witnessed it.
Paula Hawkins
#68. Elodie made a gesture that was pretty easy to interpret.
Rachel Hawkins
#69. We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.
David Hawkins
#70. Foreplay with him is the space between us: the things we haven't said; the admissions we haven't made. If I'm scared, I can't feel it, and if I'm shaking, it's surpassed by my anticipation.
Jessica Hawkins
#72. Beth grimaced. "He is a pompous ass." "And in dire need of a wealthy wife. Perhaps you should find a twitch to go with your stutter." "I would fall upon the floor in a fit if I thought it might do some good. The man is a menace.
Karen Hawkins
#73. I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.
Paula Hawkins
#74. Unlike some people, I don't have the urge to go sticking my fingers in it.
Rachel Hawkins
#75. As I lay me down to sleep, this I pray. That you will hold me, dear. Though I'm far away, I whisper your name into the sky. And I will wake up happy.
Sophie B. Hawkins
#76. I've always remembered the celebrant at my friend Eileen's wedding saying that one of the most important things in marriage is for the woman to abandon herself to her husband,' Em said. 'Not to submit to him, or obey his every wish, but just to trust him completely with her heart.
Danielle Hawkins
#77. I once read a book by a former alcoholic where she described giving oral sex to two different men, men she'd just met in a restaurant on a busy London high street. I read it and thought, I'm not that bad. This is where the bar is set.
Paula Hawkins
#78. None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.
Trip Hawkins
#79. Olivia, I'll put on a show in front of your friends, at your work, whenever we're in public. But I'm growing tired of pretending when we're alone. Don't tempt me.
Jessica Hawkins
#80. I wondered if there were any rooms in all of Thorne Abbey that wouldn't leave me gawking in wonder at the doorway.
Rachel Hawkins
#81. Somehow, my whole existence had become a really complicated word problem.
I'd always sucked at those.
Rachel Hawkins
#82. Now, Sophia, would you care to tell me why you're here by the pond instead of reporting to your next class?'
'I'm experiencing some teenage angst, Mrs. Casnoff,' I answered. 'I need to, like, write in my journal or something.
Rachel Hawkins
#83. We have our own language. Christianese ... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.
Tim Hawkins
#84. I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
Dan Hawkins
#86. Well, it is a good thing he died young. Most men don't have the good sense to know
when to quit this earth. At least your husband didn't drag on and on like some do.
Karen Hawkins
#87. I'm not a religious or spiritual man. I am guided solely by my instincts, my gut. And they have led me to you. Without you, I have nothing to believe in.
Jessica Hawkins
#88. God is both manifest as the Totality and Allness of Creation and simultaneously unmanifest as the Godhead, the Infinite Potentiality and source or 'void-ness' prior to form.
David Hawkins
#90. Jenna had started swimming in the deep end of the pity pool.
Rachel Hawkins
#91. let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things - their looks and their role as mothers.
Paula Hawkins
#92. Jack looked at the paper. Devonsgate had listed all twelve footmen: John, Mark, Luke,
Thomas ... Bloody hell, his butler had hired the entire New Testament.
Karen Hawkins
#93. Can you get me home by nine?" His grin widened. "Isolde, my friend, I can get you back by quarter 'til.
Rachel Hawkins
#94. He is watching me, waiting for me to say something, to
Paula Hawkins
#95. I'll make this decision for us. When you hurt tomorrow, physically or emotionally . . . when you question what we did . . . when you ache to do it again - I'll take the blame for all of it, Sadie.
Jessica Hawkins
#97. But I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them.
Paula Hawkins
#99. If you ever find yourself presented with a fork in the road of life and you do not know the correct direction, close your eyes and listen to your heart. I have found more adventure, more love, more happiness, and more life by listening to who I am, rather than attempting to tell myself.
Karen Hawkins
#100. I watch him come, I watch him, and I don't move until he's almost upon me, and then I swing. I jam the vicious twist of the corkscrew into his neck.
Paula Hawkins
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
