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My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects. — Mark Knopfler

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother! — Mitt Romney

There should be laughter after pain, there should be sunlight after rain, these things have always been the same, so why worry now?
[Why Worry?] — Mark Knopfler

My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work. — Rita Ora

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them. — Mark Knopfler

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones. — Mark Knopfler

To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality, — Thich Nhat Hanh

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. — Mark Knopfler

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you! — Mark Knopfler

What is today but yesterday's tomorrow? — Mr. Krabs

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well. — Lee Ann Womack

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We prayed these wars would end all wars
In war we know is no romance.
(Done With Bonaparte) — Mark Knopfler

Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality — Mark Knopfler

I shoulda learned to play the guitar. — Mark Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. — David Knopfler

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland. — Mark Knopfler

I was into playing American music, especially the blues. — Mark Knopfler

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much. — Mark Knopfler

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. — Mark Knopfler

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules. — Mark Knopfler

It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression. — E.B. White

I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied. — Mark Knopfler

Sometimes you're the windshield. Sometimes your the bug. — Mark Knopfler

However, there is something worse than idealizing the past - or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it. — Tony Judt

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better. — David Knopfler

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable. — David Knopfler

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet? — Mark Knopfler

The 85 Percent Solution: Getting started is more important than becoming an expert. — Ramit Sethi

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory. — Mark Knopfler

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important. — Mark Knopfler

And what have you got at the end of the day?
What have you got to take away? — Mark Knopfler

No money in our jackets and our jeans are torn,
Your hands are cold but your lips are warm. — Mark Knopfler

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written. — Mark Knopfler

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars. — Mark Knopfler

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose. — Mark Knopfler

I would not score very highly on religious value. — Lee Kuan Yew

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at. — Jonah Hill