Jamie Cullum Quotes

I sit around for ages waiting for inspiration. Then when I get an idea, I want to go with it and get something as quickly as possible. It's like catching a fly in a bottle. I'll play with drums for a bit, then the piano for a bit, play the guitar.

Jamie Cullum

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• I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Love
  • Stars
  • Dancing

• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  

  Sallust
  • War
  • Risk
  • Battle

• New York is my home.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Home
  • New
  • New York

• There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Strong
  • Young
  • Try

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Hate
  • Summer
  • Camping

• I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Thought
  • Surprised
  • Guess

• My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• I don't believe in miracles.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Believe
  • Miracles

• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Voice
  • Africa

• There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • God
  • Job
  • America

• I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Football
  • Young
  • Normal

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Experience
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

  

  Moliere
  • Age
  • Know
  • Prude

• An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define...or destroy you.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Idea
  • Destroy
  • VIrus

• From time immemorial man has been made in such a way that his vision of the world, so long as it has not been instilled under hypnosis, his motivations and scale of values, his actions and intentions are determined by his personal and group experience of life.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Family
  • Thankful
  • Doctors

• I don't want to become known as just a body.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Want
  • Body
  • Just

• I sit around for ages waiting for inspiration. Then when I get an idea, I want to go with it and get something as quickly as possible. It's like catching a fly in a bottle. I'll play with drums for a bit, then the piano for a bit, play the guitar.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Waiting
  • Inspiration
  • Idea