Kenny Wormald Quotes

You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

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• The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Know
  • Proud

• And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Write
  • Lyrics

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • Water
  • Cooking

• I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • You
  • Woman
  • Yourself

• When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Up
  • Chance

• My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Good
  • Information
  • Treat

• If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Funny
  • Breaks
  • Bends

• With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Rap

• There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Economy
  • Half
  • Workers

• Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • May
  • Afghanistan
  • Sudan

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Humble

• The questions are always more important than the answers.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important

• As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.

  

  John Darnielle

• With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Records
  • Touring
  • God's Help

• I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Good

• I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

  

  Roberto Clemente
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Lost

• Whenever I start freaking out and getting stressed, I have to remember that this is just the beginning.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Remember
  • Beginning
  • Stressed

• You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

  

  Kenny Wormald