Bernard Sumner Quotes

I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.

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• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Emotional

• We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Human
  • Race
  • Realize

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Young
  • For Him

• The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Process

• Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • People
  • True
  • Jealousy

• I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Job
  • Black

• My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Olympics

• Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Home
  • Stop

• I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Live
  • American
  • Identity

• I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Work
  • Like

• Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Different
  • Money
  • Practice

• In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
  • Earth
  • Evil

• There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Power
  • Past
  • Earth

• Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising.

  

  Alexandre Dumas

• The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. … With us, the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing has been relegated to the journeymen of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

  

  Lytton Strachey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Writing

• I have an amazing and supportive family. I'm fortunate to have a close relationship with everyone.

  

  Jonathan Keltz
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Amazing

• I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Peaceful
  • Aggression
  • Neighbour

• I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order