Bob Dylan

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.