David Millar Quotes

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

David Millar

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• I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Life
  • End
  • My Life

• For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Job
  • Celebrity
  • Fame

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
  • Entertained

• You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Like
  • Person
  • Choice

• Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Look
  • Lazy
  • Window

• We gave the world dab fever!

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Gave
  • Fever

• Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Morning
  • Village

• Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Women
  • Industry
  • Unhappy

• I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Wardrobe

• On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Environment

• My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Great
  • Help
  • Father

• We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Man
  • Change
  • Period

• As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Important
  • Long
  • Political

• If I arrived in Hollywood today, I would keep reminding myself not to try to make a big impression.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Today

• No one knows what a gazelle is anyway. This is America motherfucker, get it right.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • America

• The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Life
  • Judge

• I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

  

  Lisa Bonet
  • Energy
  • Motivated

• My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

  

  Kenneth Cranham
  • Poverty
  • Cooking
  • Grandmother

• If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Education
  • Serious

• It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Why
  • Earth

• It seemed important to us that an old drover who walked his cattle a thousand miles or more should be remembered for that achievement.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Achievement
  • Remembered
  • Thousand

• I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

  

  David Millar