Past Quotes

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past.

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.

Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.