Richard Ashcroft Quotes

#1. I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

Haruki Murakami

#2. If I'm in Maui, I play soccer and tennis and go kite-surfing. I prefer doing a sport as opposed to going to a gym. I'm not big on gyms. When I did 'Rampart,' I lost 30 pounds because I felt it was better for the character. I worked out constantly, maybe twice a day, and minimized caloric intake.

Woody Harrelson

#3. Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.

Richard Ashcroft

#4. Hillary Clinton has been The Smartest Woman in the World in her circle since 1970 when she went away to college.

Rush Limbaugh

#5. To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.

Richard Ashcroft

#6. He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

Sinclair Lewis

#7. Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.

Joe Budden

#8. I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.

Richard Ashcroft

#9. Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye.

Richard Ashcroft

#10. I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within a split second and I feel like I've seen too much. And that's the way, I've been like that most of my life, so I could never say I was there yet in any stretch of the imagination.

Richard Ashcroft

#11. Come back down to basics. The basic things of life, the basic things for me are the things that turn me on more than anything. I'm actually trying to go back from where I was running from ... the more essential things that I was ignoring.

Richard Ashcroft

#12. Paige, sweetheart, I love you with all my heart. Maybe it wasn't love at first sight, but then again, maybe it was. Maybe we made each other so mad because we knew, deep down, that we belong together. It just took our heads a little while to catch up with our hearts.

Kathleen Brooks

#13. What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?

Richard Ashcroft

#14. As our bodies mesh as one, I know that this is the heaven I want to fight for: the one in my arms.

Amy A. Bartol

#15. While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Francis Of Assisi

#16. I'm intrigued by all that, by religions, I'm intrigued by Jesus Christ. It's all fascinating.

Richard Ashcroft

#17. Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

Victor Hugo

#18. If things feel off, they are. If your gut and your mind are throwing up the timeouts begging you to listen, then listen.

Kelton Wright