Quotes About Drifters

#1. I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters.

Ben E. King

#2. These squatters aren't just aliens, drifters and undesirables. They're new world barbarians, conquering free spaces and making them their own.

James W. Bodden

#3. Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.

Percy Sledge

#4. The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

Ahmet Ertegun

#5. When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.

Ben E. King

#6. We're all drifters here, embarked on an aimless journey

Marty Rubin

#7. Without goals we are nothing more than drifters, drifting where?

Marilyn L. Rice

#8. Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct and sound decisions, have more self-confidence, maintain better relations and have more trust placed in them

Herman Van Rompuy

#9. He'd have done better if he had a hat, but then I suppose drifters can't be choosers.

Dan Wells

#10. When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.

Ben E. King

#11. I only want to talk to you. The robbers are all in bed by now. Drunks, drifters, and poets are the only ones up this late at night.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. That distant longing and determination, that knowledge that he was born for something greater than his small past or his sleepy present.

Leon Logothetis

#13. I'm not a poet - I'm a drifter in the arts.

Taylor Mead

#14. Do we Know Ourselves good Enough or we Still Searching for the Way to Find the Right Balance?

Jan Jansen

#15. Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.

David Livingstone

#16. There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

Emil Nolde

#17. It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.

Clint Eastwood

#18. I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.

Nicola Sturgeon

#19. Fear is the short road to death and this world,
Changed by the flux of decay:
Survival is the exception for weary men.

From the new book The Waning

Ellen Mae Franklin

#20. You'll be sewing all through winter. When the spring thaw comes, they will find your body with a needle still locked tight between your frozen fingers.

George R R Martin

#21. I'm going to have to get an entirely new social scene if I want to avoid him,' she said, hunting for evidence of him amongst her friends' feeds. I made a sympathetic face, but my heart leapt up onto her, beat its fists on her heart, yelled, Me Me Me!

Olivia Sudjic

#22. People will set a New Year's resolution: "I'm gonna get in shape this year." But they don't set a parameter for how they're gonna measure it. Or if they do measure it, they wait until the first day of the next year. You'd never run a business that way. Document your progress.

Jack LaLanne

#23. I feel everyone who has a chance should step out of India for a while to really see what it is like out there.

Chetan Bhagat

#24. Time can trap you, she thought, wind around things as transparent as glass and strong as steel and before you know it you're caught. Nothing moves. It mattered terribly but was unchangeable.

Anne Leonard

#25. Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.

Paulo Coelho

#26. No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

William Temple

#27. I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.

Lee Iacocca

#28. Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

Oprah Winfrey

#29. Yes, and in your mail the apology note appears referring to "our mistake." Apparently your own invisibility is the real problem causing her confusion. This is how the apparatus she propels you into begins to multiply its meaning. What did you say?

Claudia Rankine

#30. All women dress to be noticed: gross and vulgar women to be grossly and vulgarly noticed, wise and modest women to be wisely and modestly noticed.

G.K. Chesterton