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Top 100 Little Richard Quotes
#1. People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.
#2. I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything.
#3. I was always my own person.
#4. Doesn't suicide seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?
#5. I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.
#6. I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.
#7. When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.
#8. Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.
#9. All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.
#10. Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.
#11. To his surprise he ... discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something ... that you cared about a great deal.
#12. We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.
#13. I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
#14. The little cathedral made with matchsticks is attracted to the earth, so to make a comparison the big cathedral should be attracted to an even bigger earth. Too bad. A bigger earth would attract it even more, and the sticks would break even more surely!
#15. Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
#16. Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.
#17. Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
#18. According to the psychosurgeons, we act more in keeping with our true selves in a dream than in any other situation, including the throes of orgasm and the moment of our deaths. Maybe that explains why so much of what we do in the real world makes so little sense.
#19. The conservation of energy is a little more difficult, because this time we have a number which is not changed in time, but this number does not represent any particular thing. I
#20. Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.
#21. Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.
#22. I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.
#23. But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.
#24. All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
#25. Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
#26. If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?
#27. Have you noticed, to get fresh air into a house after a hard winter, you must sometimes use a little force to open the window that has for too long been sealed shut?
#28. There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
#29. I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.
#30. The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.
#31. I moved into a nice houseboat in Little Venice when I was 15 years old. I found a girlfriend called Monday and a houseboat called Friday, so I had the week sewn up.
#32. It is better to have no hope than just a little hope. A little hope just gets you thinking something good is about to happen. And when that little hope is taken away, you are worse off than before.
#33. I see so little of you these days, Richard," he said. "I feel that you're becoming just a shadow in my life.
#34. Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.
#35. Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.
#36. It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.
#37. Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.
#38. I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.
#39. To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.
#40. Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature.
#41. I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.
#42. I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.
#43. Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
#44. I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
#45. Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie magic. Yet Walt Disney taught moral lessons in the most useful way: by scaring the poop out of the little ones.
#46. We need to stop the little girl," said Richard "pass me that shotgun.
#47. But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
#48. Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.
#49. To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.
#50. Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.
#51. It is perverse that a nation so rich should neglect its children so shamefully. Our attitude toward them is cruelly ambivalent. Weare sentimental about children but in our actions do not value them. We say we love them but give them little honor.
#52. I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
#53. Bluebell: Please, sir, I'm only a little [car] and I've left all my petrol on the grass. So if you don't mind eating the grass, sir, while I give this lady a ride-
Hazel: Bluebell, shut up!
#54. Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace.
#55. I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
#56. A knowledge of truth is of little value unless lived in full measure.
#57. Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.
#58. Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
#59. You don't have to be afraid of me. Eugene likes you. Doc likes you. That means I like you. We're all family now. All the funny little people who live in the cracks of the world.
#60. Looking at these numbers, what do they tell anyone who's got any common sense? Everything you're seeing is just too little, too late.
#61. Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
#62. What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?
#63. There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.
#64. I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
#65. The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.
#66. I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way crimes are imputed to those who've simply been present at them.
#67. I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.
#68. But, for now, I retreated back down the little hidden staircase into the familiar world of the basement of the Natural History Museum, and to the embrace of the trilobites.
#69. Think what great love Christ has showed unto us, and how little we have deserved, and this will make our hearts to melt and be as pliable as wax before the sun.
#70. Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in ... as you ride through life.
#71. A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
#72. No woman has ever stepped on Little America and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.
#73. Never grow old, my little Briton. It really isn't worth the effort.
#74. I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.
#75. 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
#76. I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
#77. He had always beaten me. It feels good to get a little revenge. I knew I just had to keep pushing, and it just feels great to be on top.
#78. Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.
#79. Indeed, adherents of scriptural authority show distressingly little curiosity about the (normally highly dubious) historical origins of their holy books.
#80. Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.
#81. I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.
#82. A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.
#83. Little children, love one another.
#84. For in marriage a little licence,a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him.
#85. Why not? If you're not going to let me see you naked, we might as well be girlfriends."
"You're a twisted little man."
"Come on, Stretch, share with the class."
"No!" I laughed.
"Prude."
"Perv."
"Schoolmarm."
"Some other word that essentially means perv.
#86. My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.
#87. Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!
#88. All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In
#89. I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. - Richard Feynman
#90. Better too much form than too little.
#91. Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
#92. We are weak little Davids. But we are stronger than the Goliath of atheism, because God is on our side. The truth belongs to us.
#93. I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.
#94. Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
#95. When the world began, there were no such things as monsters. Demons were just fallen angels who, booted out of Heaven and bored with Hell, wandered the Earth sticking little girls' pigtails in inkwells and sinking the occasional continent.
#96. A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.
#97. And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.
#98. I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
#99. I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.
#100. A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.
