Doing Quotes

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

~ Ralph Vaughan Williams

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

~ Jonny Greenwood

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

~ Van Morrison

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

~ Joe Elliott

Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.

~ Kathy Valentine

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

~ Nancy Mckeon

For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

~ Ken Kercheval

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

~ Benjamin Spock

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

~ Bill Gates

'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.

~ Zachary Knighton

I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

~ Silas Weir Mitchell

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.

~ Henry Kissinger

The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's authority only against al Qaeda, it allows them for all legitimate foreign intelligence purposes.

~ Michael Hayden

I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family we're doing alright.

~ Robert Morse

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

~ Patrick Warburton

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

~ Trishelle Cannatella

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

~ John Ruskin

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

~ Kevin Mccloud

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

~ Brigham Young

Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.

~ Cory Gardner

I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.

~ Frank Deford

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

~ Novalis

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

~ Jessye Norman

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

~ Washington Irving

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

~ Spike Jonze

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

~ Nicholas Negroponte

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

~ William Green

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.

~ Christina Milian

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.

~ Michael Specter

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

~ Dennis Prager

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

~ Ernest Istook

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

~ Ray Kroc

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

~ Thomas Merton

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

~ Andrew Carnegie

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others the best way to gather is to scatter.

~ Thomas Brooks

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.

~ Katharine Whitehorn

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

~ Joe Dimaggio