Brian Eno Quotes

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

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• I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Never
  • Try
  • Research

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • World
  • Done
  • History

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Change

• I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Mean

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Doubt
  • Lead
  • Hatred

• I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Work
  • Long
  • Race

• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Small
  • Me

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Tax
  • Budget

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Better
  • Red
  • Argument

• Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Father
  • Death

• It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Reality
  • Sad

• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Goal
  • Famous
  • Actor

• When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Different
  • Art

• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • She
  • Mother

• When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

  

  Lorrie Moore
  • Writing
  • Women
  • School

• You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.

  

  Mark Alan Webber
  • World
  • Dad

• Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Daughter

• Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Life
  • God
  • Jesus Christ

• I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • School
  • Art
  • Magic