Mcgoldrick Sheffield Quotes

They stood, caught in the eternity of a moment. ~ May McGoldrick

A joke was the best barometer for mental weather. ~ Charles Sheffield

I was just one of those graves that pretty girls make. ~ Rob Sheffield

Unfortunately it is not possible to destroy our history. It lives inside us, probably the more powerful for our attempts to bury it. We and our families are likely to pay a high price in the present for trying to block out the past. Attempts to cover up family history tend to fester, influencing others born long after the original painful experiences and relationships. ~ Monica McGoldrick

Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder. ~ Rob Sheffield

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. ~ Rob Sheffield

I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted. ~ Rob Sheffield

Listening to it now is like a personally guided tour through my past. ~ Rob Sheffield

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive. ~ Rob Sheffield

I think as a society we forget that men also have daddy issues, they've also had bad childhoods, they're vulnerable beings.. They also need love. We are made to think men don't have a hard time, and that's mainly because we've trained them not to show emotion, not to shed a tear.. but I can assure you, we men break down just like every other being. We get depressed. We get heartbroken, we get scared, lonely, butterflies.. We feel every emotion just as women do. ~ Scott Mcgoldrick

I felt indestructible, or at least undestroyed, more alive than I'd ever been. ~ Rob Sheffield

If you freak out over trivial everyday grievances, how are you going to handle *real* problems? ~ Rob Sheffield

I'm fat...I regard that as healthy. Good food wards off disease. - Dr. Erasmus Darwin ~ Charles Sheffield

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one. ~ Rob Sheffield

Dave Matthews is mixing violin solos with saxophone solos and it's bad for the baby ~ Rob Sheffield

I always envied my friends who had older siblings who could guide them through the teenage wasteland. ~ Rob Sheffield

The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together. ~ Rob Sheffield

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life. ~ Rob Sheffield

I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield. ~ Prince Philip

If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver. ~ William Cobbett

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other. ~ Rob Sheffield

The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart. ~ Rob Sheffield

I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be. ~ Rob Sheffield

As the old saw goes, the Irish songs are full of happy wars and unhappy lovers. ~ Rob Sheffield

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free. ~ Rob Sheffield

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together. ~ Rob Sheffield

I still haven't finished unpacking - by the time I do, it'll be time to move again. ~ Rob Sheffield

It was just another temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people to communicate ~ Rob Sheffield

There's a good-feel factor about Sheffield Wednesday ~ Alan Brazil

My ears rang all the way home and I didn't want them to stop. It made me want to start something. ~ Rob Sheffield

I had never gotten the hang of dating - I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't. ~ Rob Sheffield

Sheffield United are attacking their own fans. ~ Matt Murray

The bassist -- always the bassist. ~ Rob Sheffield

All too often people are not aware of the trait-----whether positive or negative----they have absorbed from their families. You may feel contempt for your family's pretentiousness and be unaware that you have absorbed some of the same mannerisms. Awareness of the trait could easily lead to it's amelioration. Similarly, a positive awareness of connectedness to family can give you a sense of belonging and a feeling of continuity that will strengthen your own sense of identity. ~ Monica McGoldrick

Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections. ~ Rob Sheffield

Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don't live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous. ~ Rob Sheffield

Anything can be a love song as long as two people care about it. ~ Rob Sheffield

I grew up on country radio. You know I'm a sucker for that 'we got no money but we got love' crap. ~ Rob Sheffield

Dog love is blind. For that matter, dog love is stupid. ~ Rob Sheffield

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received. ~ John Sheffield

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you ~ Rob Sheffield

The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You are
there, my friend. ~ Rob Sheffield

I was somebody's boyfriend now. This would mean a lot of trial and error. But she was who I wanted to try and err with. ~ Rob Sheffield

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman. ~ Rob Sheffield

You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude. ~ Rob Sheffield

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten. ~ Rob Sheffield

And they're right - what could be scarier, stupider, than
staying together? How else could you totally guarantee that you would always have reasons to be terrified? ~ Rob Sheffield

He sang about girls in space-why not? That's where all the cool girls were. (They weren't where I could find them, that was for sure.) ~ Rob Sheffield

Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't. ~ Rob Sheffield

I was too young to know adult life is full of accidents and interrupted moments and empty beds you climb into and don't climb out of. ~ Rob Sheffield

Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward. ~ Rob Sheffield

Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977. ~ Rob Sheffield

If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage. ~ Sebastian Coe

Don't charge the mound. Once you agree to fight, you lost already. Don't start none, won't be none. ~ Rob Sheffield

It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. ~ Rob Sheffield

And I feel certain that you will, because I've come to take it away. I'm from the furniture shop, and the bed isn't paid for. ~ George Sheffield

They're never technically tapes, but they're always called mix tapes anyway, just because tapes are always cool. ~ Rob Sheffield

There are millions of songs in the world, and millions of ways to connect them into mixes. Making the connections is part of the fun of being a fan. ~ Rob Sheffield

I hear the noise in his voice, and I hear a boy trying to scare the darkness away. I wish I could hear what happened next, but nothing did. ~ Rob Sheffield

I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun. ~ Rob Sheffield

For all karaoke freaks around the nation, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is one of those sacred anthems. It's the kind of song that announces, "Dearly beloved, we have so totally gathered here today. ~ Rob Sheffield

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws. ~ Gary Sheffield

Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again. ~ Rob Sheffield

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing. ~ Rob Sheffield

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing. ~ Rob Sheffield

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning. ~ Rob Sheffield

Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair. ~ Gary Sheffield

Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely. ~ Rob Sheffield

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. ~ Rob Sheffield

I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary. ~ Gary Sheffield

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake. ~ Rob Sheffield

I knew I would have to relearn how to listen to music, and that some of the music we'd loved together I'd never be able to hear again. ~ Rob Sheffield

If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy. ~ Rob Sheffield

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here. ~ Rob Sheffield

It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans. ~ Rob Sheffield

Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got. ~ Rob Sheffield

At that moment, I knew she was the girl for me. Of course, we'd already been going out for a few weeks, so I wasn't, like, shocked or anything. But still, it's never not nice to to keep realizing. ~ Rob Sheffield

It was just a temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people to communicate by bombarding each other with pitiful cultural artifacts that in a saner world would be forgotten before they even happened. ~ Rob Sheffield

You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether you screwed up big-time, though it's too late either way. ~ Rob Sheffield

I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to impress each other with, which eventually turned into listening to the music we actually liked. ~ Rob Sheffield

People who wave digital cameras at shows are the same people who sit in front of you at hockey games and wear those giant foam-rubber fingers that say, We're number one!' ~ Rob Sheffield

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race. ~ Rob Sheffield

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies. ~ Rob Sheffield

It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.' ~ Rob Sheffield

Do you believe in Madonna? Because Lady Gaga has got something to say about 'Express Yourself,' and she's turned Madonna's fourth-best single of 1989 into her own instant-classic club anthem, 'Born This Way.' ~ Rob Sheffield

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out. ~ Charles Sheffield

And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely). ~ Rob Sheffield

If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys. ~ Gary Sheffield

I was too scared to talk, but I was more scared to not talk. ~ Rob Sheffield

Some of us are born Gladys Knights, and some of us are born Pips. ~ Rob Sheffield

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends. ~ Rob Sheffield

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade. ~ Rob Sheffield

Just more of that endless, useless knowledge you absorb when you're in a relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship. When the relationship's gone, you're stuck knowing all this garbage. ~ Rob Sheffield

Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn't like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested and then feeling vaguely disappointed by whatever they did next. ~ Rob Sheffield

Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.' ~ Rob Sheffield

The hottest trash-disco star in the world: Ke$ha! She has a lot in common with Kiss, actually, even spelling her name with a dollar sign the way Gene Simmons probably always wanted to. ~ Rob Sheffield

Some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness. ~ Rob Sheffield

You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield ~ Julia Quinn

I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well. ~ Gary Sheffield

Some nights I would drive up Route 29 to the all-night Wal-Mart. I'd push a cart around with some paper towels inside to look like a real shopper, just to spy on married people. I just wanted to be near them, to listen to them argue ... Married people fight over some dumb shit when they think there aren't any widowers eavesdropping. And they never think there are widowers eavesdropping.
Rob Sheffield (Love is a Mix Tape) ~ Rob Sheffield