Been Quotes

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I’ve been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.

Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.

I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.

It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.

It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.