John Bonham Quotes

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

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• The ox suffers, the cart complains.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffers
  • Complains
  • Cart

• It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Father
  • Reality
  • Stars

• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • God
  • Human
  • King

• My eye is ever on those who love me.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Love
  • Me
  • Eye

• I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Control
  • Company
  • Stock

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Words
  • Always
  • Talk

• We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Man
  • Enjoy
  • Disdain

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Everything
  • Starts
  • Daydream

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Information
  • Charge
  • Flow

• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Art
  • Envy
  • Blessings

• There's a wide spectrum of possibilities in how to deliver a song.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Song

• You can't sit down and decide what you want to write about.

  

  John Burnside

• I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that inspired me to be an astronaut, and, of course, the backdrop is nothing less than Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. That was a time in our nation where we aspired to great things, and we achieved them.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• It seemed proper indeed to crowd the pages with children, for in real life they run all over; the world is covered thickly with the prints of their little footsteps, though, as a rule, books written for grown-up people are kept almost clear of them.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.

  

  Phil Hartman
  • People
  • May
  • Society

• Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

  

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