Jarvis Cocker Quotes

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.

  

  Iman
  • Like
  • Look
  • Everyday

• I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Always
  • Find

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Rose

• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Future
  • Risk

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Poetry

• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Mom

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Help
  • Success
  • Artist

• If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Life
  • Good
  • Team

• We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Free
  • Culture
  • Positive

• Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Wise

• J.J. Abrams wanted me to do a part in Lost and we probably had three meetings, and I finally turned it down, but it wasn't because I didn't like television or Lost, although I think I said to J.J., "I don't want to be in Hawaii and have an insurance person tell me I'm not allowed to go free dive and spear fishing." That would be the worst kind of torture in the world. But I don't hate television.

  

  Scott Glenn
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Hate

• At this time, space was supposed to be filled with an ether, a substance which might well serve, among other functions, to transmit forces across space. So long as such an ether could be called on, the transmission of force to a distance was easy to understand; it was like ringing a distant bell by pulling a bell-rope.

  

  James Jeans
  • Time
  • Long
  • Space

• Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Records
  • Sold
  • Phil Collins

• I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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