Pete Burns Quotes
How did I write 'Spin Me?' I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love.'
Pete Burns
Quotes to Explore
-
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
Harold MacMillan
-
One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
Sam Kean
-
Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet
-
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
-
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
Hans Haacke
-
School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
W. E. B. Du Bois
-
No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
D. L. Hughley
-
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
Rachel Johnson
-
Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
Felix Baumgartner
-
I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
Zoe Kazan
-
Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
Lance Loud
-
Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it's close to the Himalayas. According to Hindu mythology, that's the abode of Lord Shiva.
Kailash Kher
-
I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
Harland Williams
-
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Jack Kerouac
-
I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
Tananarive Due
-
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
K. D. Lang
-
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln
-
I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.
Ted Danson
-
Our life is our prayer. It is our gift to the universe, and the memories we leave behind when we someday exit this world will be our legacy to our loved ones. The best thing we can do for ourselves and everyone around us is to find our joy and share it!
Anita Moorjani
-
At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a universe in which all was chaos and void came to include hunches, beliefs, sentiments, raw sensations, pains, emotions, wishes, ideas, images, inferences, the feel of rubber, Schadenfreude, and the taste of banana ice cream.
David Berlinski
-
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists.
John Maynard Keynes
-
Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool.
Douglas Brinkley
-
How did I write 'Spin Me?' I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love.'
Pete Burns
