Bill Forsyth Quotes

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

Bill Forsyth

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• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Men

• With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Important
  • Character

• I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • She
  • Chicago
  • Stand

• I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Ignorance

• Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

  

  Iman
  • Man
  • Singer
  • Bowie

• I'm not hard to get along with.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Hard
  • Get
  • Along

• I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Son
  • Successful
  • Million

• But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Peace
  • Independence
  • Africa

• Rex Ryan is definitely a very confident individual and, when you have someone who believes firmly in what he's speaking, you naturally absorb it.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Individual
  • Confident

• But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friendship
  • Rose
  • Sweets

• My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Childhood

• I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Children
  • Choose

• High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

  

  Major Owens
  • High
  • Eating
  • Lead

• I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Time
  • Day
  • Understanding

• If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • War
  • Nature

• Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art

• I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kind

• Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Desire
  • Authenticity
  • Hard Times

• ... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • May
  • Action

• My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Messages
  • Phone

• My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

  

  Bill Forsyth