Robert Wilson Quotes

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'

Robert Wilson

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• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
  • Love
  • True
  • Inspiration

• I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Self-destructive
  • Inherently

• I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Fun
  • Hear
  • Horn

• The higher your station, the less your liberty.

  

  Sallust
  • Liberty
  • Higher
  • Less

• I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • School
  • Dinner

• I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

  

  Rachel True
  • Think
  • Follower
  • Frankly

• I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Attention
  • Day
  • End

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Changes
  • Looking

• Everything I say is true.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • True
  • Everything
  • Say

• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • You
  • Will
  • Saying

• All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Friends
  • Feel
  • Speak

• I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Think
  • Know

• I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Need
  • Dogs
  • Chicken

• In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Book
  • You
  • Something

• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wish
  • Gods
  • Answer

• Foolish prideIs all that I have left, so let me hideThe tears and the sadness you gave meWhen you said goodbyeWalk on by

  

  Hal David
  • Tears

• Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Together
  • Die

• It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?

  

  Philip Hammond
  • Alone
  • Independent

• Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Money

• Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.

  

  Evalyn Walsh McLean
  • Children
  • Money
  • Energy

• While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Mother
  • Musician
  • Become

• You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Risk
  • Brave

• Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'

  

  Robert Wilson
  • Money
  • Office
  • Houston