Brian May Quotes

My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

Brian May Queen

• Surgeon
• Guitar Player
• Don't Remember

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• I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Creativity
  • Therapy

• However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Man
  • Now
  • Gifts

• We've got to stop pandering and start leading.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Leading

• When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Wings

• A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Alone
  • Child
  • Empathy

• I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Hurt

• Ideally there should not be a men’s movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women’s movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men’s movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People

• But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • Black

• I think people have found it very interesting that those that enforce ObamaCare, those that wrote Obamacare, are not a part of ObamaCare.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People
  • Interesting

• I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • Up
  • Grandmother

• Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it was too late.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Different
  • High
  • Energy

• I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat gay ulcers. There are actors I know who won't come out, and I can see it crippling them as human beings. It's a great shame that people can't be who they are in the 21st century, and people won't let them be who they are.

  

  Ben Daniels
  • People
  • Great
  • Gay

• Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

  

  Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda
  • Writing
  • Words

• 'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • People
  • History
  • High

• I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.

  

  Jane Chen
  • Believe

• It's been cool to have my name mentioned when people say R&B is on the comeback and I'm the leading person. If you had told me at 16 that I would be that person - you're lying.

  

  Ella Mai
  • People
  • Cool
  • Comeback

• My dad was a Republican. My mom - my mom was mostly a Republican, although she voted for McGovern over Nixon. She was really proud of that. She also did, however, work for Trent Lott.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
  • Work
  • She
  • Dad

• Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Surgeon

• I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many years.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Years
  • High School
  • Guitar Player

• Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

  

  Sigmar Gabriel
  • Iran
  • Genocide
  • Threatening

• It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Distance
  • Greek
  • Philosopher

• My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Surgeon
  • Guitar Player
  • Don't Remember