Brian May Quotes

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

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• Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Men
  • Support

• People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Love
  • Food

• I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Serious
  • Drama

• There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • You
  • Food
  • Need

• Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Small
  • Theatre
  • Camera

• I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Care
  • Win
  • Gold

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Guy
  • Night
  • Black

• You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Want
  • You
  • Company

• A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time

• You can’t be all Mexican. It’s like being all mongrel.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Mexican

• I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

  

  Freya Tingley
  • Great

• Airbnb is different from most brands. We're a community of individuals, and yet there's a consistency holding us together through the values we share. We have a common belief in belonging, but everyone's expression of it will naturally always be a little different.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • Different
  • Together
  • Community

• When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • People
  • Hope
  • Small

• I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Best
  • Theatre
  • Same

• When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Up
  • Different
  • Home

• When you understand that making, saving, and spending money is all based on the thoughts you're thinking and the actions that these thoughts lead to, you can completely transform your reality - and your bank account.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Reality

• As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around.

  

  David Ignatius
  • World
  • Work
  • Experience

• I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • May

• The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Grit