quotes about Drops In The Ocean

“If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.”

“The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.”

“One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.”

Source : "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

“I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best,”

“You never get tired of the buzz of touring.”

“I'm really optimistic in the mornings.”

“I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.”

“My way of communicating love and interest in people is through cooking. I grew up in an environment where food was really celebrated, and that gave me the message: food makes people happy.”

“Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.”

“See-through goes with everything.”