Bill Nighy Quotes

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

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• But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Learn

• My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Fear

• Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Example

• As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sad
  • Stories
  • Anger

• If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Working

• Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Like
  • Habit
  • Muscle

• Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Equal
  • Only
  • Washington

• Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Friend
  • Sometimes
  • Serious

• I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Like

• A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Fear
  • Gay

• The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • People
  • Honor
  • Will

• I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Way
  • Being

• Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Place
  • Demands
  • Flag

• Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Important
  • United States

• All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Guitar
  • Construction

• I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Man
  • Past
  • Purpose

• I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Country
  • Song

• Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Man
  • Smoking
  • Lips

• O let the organ, many-voiced, sing boldly, O let it roar like spring's first thunderstorm! My half-closed eyes over your young bride's shoulder Will meet your eyes just once and then no more.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Eyes
  • Spring

• I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'

  

  Frank Oz
  • Work
  • Why

• Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.

  

  Dennis Muren

• I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

  

  Bill Nighy