Bill Bruford Quotes

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

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• When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Children
  • Girl
  • Clever

• While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Time
  • Good
  • Others

• Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Family
  • Clean
  • Seen

• My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Brother

• It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Job
  • Dark
  • Easy

• I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Done
  • History

• As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Star
  • More
  • Star Wars

• I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Night
  • Religious
  • Summer

• I came here when I was 20. I came to go to school, but I ended up working for Halston as an assistant. That happened in a very strange way. My father had a meeting with Halston. And my father said to me, 'Join me. I want you to meet this amazing American designer.' And I happened to just tag along, and Halston offered me a job.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Never
  • Rich

• Regardless of who you are or who you like, love is love.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Love
  • You
  • For Her

• No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Fight
  • Pet
  • Cats

• I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Influence

• Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Good
  • Love
  • Strong

• If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Just
  • Tried
  • Singles

• I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Friends

• All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Experience
  • Freedom
  • Theory

• Donald Trump, unlikely Mitt Romney, is not awkward about his money. He has absolutely no qualms about saying, 'I'm rich.'

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Money
  • Trump

• In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else's version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Control

• When Hugo climbed out of the back, the dogs ran away yelping. Apparently they didn’t require magic milk to sense that the golem meant trouble.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Magic
  • Trouble
  • Dogs

• Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics.

  

  Don Rickles

• My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

  

  Bill Bruford Yes