Bobby Sands Quotes

I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.

Bobby Sands

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• I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Disability

• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Down

• Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Memories
  • Show
  • Everyone

• Home is most important in the long run.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Important
  • Long
  • Home

• I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Money
  • Look
  • Ignore

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Think
  • Like
  • Athlete

• If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Military

• I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Home
  • Night
  • Man

• For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Life
  • Music
  • Death

• I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Always
  • Enjoy
  • First-Person

• In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• Fashion for a long time was very elitist and difficult to get access to. The access I can now provide to my readers live from fashion shows with my iPhone was never, ever possible before.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Book
  • Kiss

• I had a barbecue stain on my white T-shirt.She was killin' me in that mini-skirt.Skipping rocks on the river by the railroad tracks.She had a suntan line and red lipstick.I work so hard for that first kiss and a heart don't forget, something like that.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Work
  • Heart
  • She

• Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Life
  • Together
  • Action

• In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Moved
  • My Mother

• Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • You
  • Ignorance
  • Embrace

• My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

  

  Nolan Gerard Funk
  • Actor
  • Situations
  • Comfort Zone

• Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.

  

  Aviva Chomsky
  • Humans
  • Laws
  • Invented

• Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.

  

  Catharine Macaulay
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Moral

• I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.

  

  Bobby Sands