Bruce Robinson Quotes

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

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• I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Up
  • Never
  • Try

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

• We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Science

• My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Tradition

• Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Difficult
  • Most

• At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Man
  • Dog
  • Lion

• California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • California
  • Hell

• Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Want
  • Freedom

• I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Look

• Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Actor

• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Believe
  • Action

• When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Mind

• I've tried to force a solo before, but sometimes it's like, 'That thing don't really fit, man!'

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott

• If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

  

  Bruce Robinson
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  • Dog