Quotes from bono quotes ii

What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?

Well, one of the things that hits have and that great music always has, you know--the music feels like it was already there.

I think belief in your script is essential. I am a salesman. I come from a long line of traveling salespeople on my mother's side. And I think I'm a good salesman of ideas, songs, melodies, if I believe in them.

I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.... Very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. I've a blockage there, so that my eyes go red a lot. So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity.

Love is a temple, Love a higher law.

It's a beautiful day... Don't let it get away.

I'm wary of faith outside of actions. I'm wary of religiosity that ignores the wider world.

The glass is cut, the bottle run dry. Our love runs cold in the caverns of the night.

Rock music was most exciting when it was in the 45 [rpm single], when it was disciplined into a single. Whether it was the Sex Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks, Nirvana, the Beatles, the Stones. When the wind starts blowing in the hair, and it meanders off, you can get some great [stuff], but it doesn't interest me as much. The 45 is the pure rock to me. That is why I wanted to be in a band.

I have spoke with the tongue of Angels, I have held the hand of The Devil. It was warm in the night, I was cold as a stone.

Truth is beauty. That can be a hard thing to say, because some things are not so attractive on the surface. But by owning up to them, we change them--just by speaking them.

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

Well, the heart that hurts is a heart that beats.

Teenage kids have no sense of mortality -- yours or theirs.