Josh Homme Quotes

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• I'm the blackest villain of all time.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Time
  • Villain
  • Blackest

• It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Architecture
  • Roots
  • Lasting

• In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Like

• I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wish

• There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Black
  • Financial
  • Potential

• Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Attractive
  • Texture

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • People
  • Strong
  • Funny

• I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Hard

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Tears
  • Blood
  • Sweat

• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  

  Gary Larson
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Giving
  • Confidence
  • Speech

• If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Self

• Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Persons
  • Three

• Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

  

  Michael Bloomberg
  • People
  • Time
  • Surround

• The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

  

  Charles Sturt

• I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Depressing