Beth Gibbons Quotes

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

Beth Gibbons Portishead

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• What I do for a living is listen.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Living
  • Listen

• I'm just a musician and a record producer.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Just
  • Musician
  • Producer

• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Living
  • Sense
  • Lucky

• Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Book
  • Me
  • Face

• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Point
  • Move

• It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Passion
  • Decision
  • Debate

• I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Peace
  • Media
  • Bring

• If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Teenager
  • Street
  • Shot

• I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Book
  • Success
  • Universe

• I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Arts
  • Degree
  • Culinary

• We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Need
  • System
  • Criminal

• Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Always
  • Name
  • Dead

• You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Up
  • Important
  • Nature

• I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Myself
  • Easy
  • Blue

• Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Now
  • Fact
  • Matters

• You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.

  

  Michelle Pfeiffer
  • Choices
  • Stills

• Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Cold
  • Wind

• It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.

  

  Henry Major Tomlinson
  • May
  • Truth
  • Road

• I don't order laws, I propose them.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Order
  • Laws
  • Them

• “I suppose once you've been accused of being a witch, you're never really safe. People may blame all sorts of accidents and misfortunes on you.”

  

  Hugh Lofting
  • People
  • Safe
  • Blame

• I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

  

  Beth Gibbons Portishead