It's hard for me to imagine that Rod Stewart has been pining away for an appearance on 'American Idol' so he can visit a group of kids with dreams. You can't deny the impact 'American Idol' has had on artists' record sales.
Quotes about pining (13 Quotes)
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered What is more injurious to others What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.
But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.
Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.
The industry has been pining for this kind of Internet for years, but it's really starting to happen, ... The pioneers often get turned into fertilizer, and the rest harvest off them. It seems to be harvest time.
I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in telephonic, technological and relational to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.
We may live without poetry, music and art We may live without conscience, and live without heart We may live without friends we may live without books But civilized man cannot live without cooks.... He may live without books,what is knowledge but grieving He may live without hope,what is hope but deceiving He may live without love,what is passion but pining But where is the man that can live without dining.
We are not afraid of elections but we are not creating conditions for elections either, ... We are not pining for elections. Suppose people give the same kind of fractured verdict we will be back in the same situation.
He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.