Billy Eichner Quotes

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

Billy Eichner

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• Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Men
  • Support

• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Film

• If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Design
  • Clothes

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Laws
  • Greed
  • Corporations

• I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Taken
  • Like
  • Very

• Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Action
  • Luck
  • Election

• Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • Work
  • Design

• Dressing is a way of life.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Life
  • Way
  • Dressing

• For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Magic

• In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Hand

• I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Up
  • Virtue
  • Still

• I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Powerful

• As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Crush

• Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• I'm trying to stay as healthy as possible but there's no pressure to be really skinny. No. That's just a bit wrong.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Trying

• Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)

  

  Aristophanes
  • City
  • Clouds

• What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection, and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Listening

• When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Film
  • Students
  • Scene

• I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

  

  Paul Anka
  • She
  • Song
  • Flying

• Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden.... As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or face the consequences - and again in any action the aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Action
  • Taken
  • Military

• No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

  

  Billy Eichner