Bob Gibson Quotes
A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
-
Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
-
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
-
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
-
Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
-
I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
-
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
-
A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
-
In Chicago, they die for their teams.
-
Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
-
I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
-
I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'
-
One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
-
The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
-
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
-
I'm learning every day.
-
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
-
Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
-
Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
-
It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
-
I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.
-
There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
-
A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.
