Billy Childish Quotes

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

Billy Childish

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• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
  • Swimming
  • Bricks

• Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Now
  • Weekend
  • Eating

• Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Fish
  • Meat

• In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Kids
  • Career
  • College

• Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Health care
  • Initiative
  • Low

• I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Home
  • Night
  • Dance

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Music
  • Children
  • Night

• Lying on my hotel bed, mesmerized by the lazy turns of the ceiling fan, I pondered the possibility that I was nuts. It wasn’t unheard of, even in the days of the Bitchun Society, and even though there were cures, they weren’t pleasant.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Society
  • Lazy

• No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • People

• 'Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.'

  

  Anne Rice
  • Interesting
  • Enemy

• There is a conspiracy to do us in. Why?... They see us as a threat to the rest of Singapore.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Why
  • Rest

• 80: Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.

  

  Alan Perlis

• When a monk takes a vow of silence, is he still allowed to post messages on the Internet? Chances are God won't find out. Being ancient, God probably can't work computers. He holds the mouse gingerly, like it's made of fine china.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Work
  • God
  • Silence

• Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • People
  • Done
  • Wonder

• I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.

  

  Amy Sherald

• Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Girl

• I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

  

  Billy Childish
  • Silence