Brian Lumley Quotes

The Army was my bread and butter.

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• I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Stop
  • Beginning

• One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Why
  • Understand
  • Difficult

• I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Understand

• I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Anxiety

• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Trouble

• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Successful
  • Plan

• The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Human
  • Movies
  • Bold

• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Lost
  • Village

• It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Easy
  • Chinese
  • Films

• I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Challenges

• To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Broken

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Kids
  • Couple

• A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Rock

• A lot of films come out before they're finished.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Come
  • Finished
  • Out

• I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Relationship

• I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam.

  

  Alija Izetbegovic
  • World
  • Nature
  • Religious

• Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Long
  • Pool

• There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Like
  • Hollywood
  • Listen

• I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Real

• If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.

  

  Michael Porter
  • Strategy
  • Target

• The Army was my bread and butter.

  

  Brian Lumley
  • Army