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
  • Desert

• 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

• I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Wind
  • Figure
  • Nights

• The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • American
  • Think
  • Man

• Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Born
  • Strange

• If youre gonna put your faith in something, then it better shape who you are and what people see in you.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • People
  • Faith
  • Shape

• 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