Brian Eno Quotes

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

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• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Best
  • Worst
  • Prepare

• My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Remember
  • Mom
  • Always

• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • Boy
  • Before

• People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Love
  • Really
  • Labor

• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Think
  • You
  • President

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Career
  • Always
  • Said

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Good
  • Never
  • First

• You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • World
  • Kids
  • Think

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Son

• She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist- remain hidden away. Except for when a practical sort of decision has to be made, she never gives her personal opinion about anything. She seldom talks about herself, instead letting others talk, nodding warmly as she listens. But most people start to feel vaguely uneasy when talking with her, as if they suspect they're wasting her time, trampling on her private, graceful, dignified world. And that impression is, for the most part, correct.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Decision
  • Opinion
  • Impression

• She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Admire
  • Considered

• I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Loved

• I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • God
  • Different

• Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Son
  • Eye
  • Parent

• Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Research
  • England
  • Considered