Constructs Quote by Ryan Adams Download Open image “Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.” — Ryan Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constructs Fame Unnatural
I think, most of the time, fame is just an inconvenience that needs to be negotiated around to get done what you're actually trying… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that… — Jodhi May Copy Share Image
The process of seeking fame is a process of seeking dehumanization. You are looking for it. You want it. But you only want the… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind. — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a… — Scott Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well. — Ashley Olsen Copy Share Image
Ultimately, however bad a situation is for people, especially if it's a condition of love or some internal dialogue, I think most people would… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I am aware of the depths of heartache I'm experiencing but also how foolish it is to think that the things we have are… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to,… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people,… — Ryan Adams Copy Share
Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I like to read comics, and I'll listen to records, and I like to play pinball. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I could fall asleep at 10:30 watching 'Hill Street Blues.' I might wake up at 1 A.M. and have a riff in my head. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become:… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image