Geezer Butler (Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler) Quotes

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Think
  • Know
  • Road

• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Underdog

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • May
  • Freedom

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• Stay focused on the mission.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Mission
  • Stay
  • Stay Focused

• Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Success
  • Attitude
  • Dangerous

• Everybody grows but me.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Me
  • Grows
  • Everybody

• I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Terrible
  • After
  • Turned

• I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Goal

• Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Business
  • Run
  • Tell

• The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunities
  • Wherever

• The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • American
  • Woman
  • Down

• I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Because

• You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

  

  Gary Busey
  • Understanding
  • Thoughts
  • Doubt

• Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Real
  • War
  • Fear

• When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Face

• For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• I try to get underneath the skin of all kinds of music, and I never know what's going to inspire me and what makes me crazy.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • Music
  • Crazy

• Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Consideration
  • Conservation
  • Sanitation

• When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Sick

• Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

  

  Geezer Butler Black Sabbath