All Quotes

"Get jailed, jump bail Join the army, if you fail"

"Don't follow leaders Watch the parkin' meters"

"Twenty years of schoolin' And they put you on the day shift"

"The pump don't work 'Cause the vandals took the handles"

"She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back."

"She could take the dark out the nighttime and paint the daytime black."

"You will start out standing, proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her keyhole down upon your knees."

"Well, I try my best To be just like I am But everybody wants you To be just like them"

"I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more."

"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all."

"She knows too much to argue or to judge."

"In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, Read books repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall."

"Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth."

"I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too" He said, "You're not Him""

"The ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming."

"And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme..."

"It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run"

"Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time..."

"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free."

"With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow."

"Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me. In the jingle-jangle morning, I'll come following you."

"All and all can only fall with a crushing but meaningless blow."

"And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden."

"Of war and peace the truth just twist, its curfew gull it glides."

"Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon There is no sense in trying"

"He not busy being born is busy dying"

"Others say, don't hate nothing at all except hatred"

"Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Make everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred"

"Even the President of the United States Sometimes must have to stand naked"

"It is not he or she or them or it That you belong to."

"You must leave, now take what you need, You think will last But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast Yonder stands your orphan with his gun Crying like a fire in the sun."

"The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense."

"Your lover who just walked out the door, has taken all his blankets from your floor."

"Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you. Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you. Strike another match, go! Start anew And it's all over now, Baby Blue."

"You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning."

"Do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact with one that tries to hide what he don't know to begin with."

"I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you."

"How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?"

"Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you. People call, say beware doll, you're bound to fall, you thought they were all, kiddin you."

"You used to laugh about Everybody that was hangin' out Now you don't talk so loud Now you don't seem so proud About having to be scrounging for your next meal"

"You never turned around to see the frowns, on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did, tricks for you."

"Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made"

"Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse. When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. You're invisible now. You've got no secrets to conceal."

"The sweet pretty things are in bed now, of course."

"Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison"

"The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown At Delilah's who sitting worthlessly alone But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter"

"And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul To the old folks home and the college"

"Well I ride on a mail train baby, can't buy a thrill."

"Don't the moon look good, mama, shinin' through the trees? Don't the brakeman look good, mama, flaggin' down the double E? Don't the sun look good goin' down over the sea?"

"And you say, Oh my God, am I here all alone?"