Beth Gibbons Quotes

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

Beth Gibbons Portishead

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• I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Day

• Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Lost
  • Feet
  • Ground

• Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Decision
  • Act

• Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Risks
  • Oil

• I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Better
  • Actors
  • Works

• The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Book
  • Father

• Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Road
  • Perception

• I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • End
  • Start

• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Acting
  • Creative

• Like anyone else, I enjoy my days off.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Days

• I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Game
  • Way
  • Finish

• I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted to your interests than they would be with a regular search engine. If you choose a topic on our site that you're interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you're leafing through an art magazine.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Art
  • Internet
  • Search

• I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Trying
  • Health
  • Girlfriend

• Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time

• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Remember
  • Today

• As she sat in the low-backed carThe man at the turn-pike barNever asked for the tollBut just rubbed his auld pollAnd looked after the low-backed car.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • She
  • Car

• I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.

  

  Phyllis A. Whitney
  • Long
  • Live
  • Book

• I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I’m all alone where I’m not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I’m dead in the water.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Work
  • Morning
  • Like

• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Love
  • Lucky
  • Love Is

• My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me.

  

  Patrick Monahan Train
  • Mother
  • Planets
  • Swim

• When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Give
  • Fall In Love
  • Natural Thing

• There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

  

  Beth Gibbons Portishead