Beth Gibbons Quotes
My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.
Quotes to Explore
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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We are what we believe we are.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.
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The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires.
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I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it's not a good thing when you're over more than a third of the plate.
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In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.
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Sometimes you listen to a piece of music that inspires a collection. You listen to the music, which creates the mood, which creates the clothes.
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In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.
