Robert Wyatt Quotes

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

Robert Wyatt

• Giving
• Helping
• Trouble
• Drinking
• Reckless

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• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • You
  • Vote
  • Citizen

• Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Team
  • Working

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • I Can

• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• All government, of course, is against liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Against

• I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• Few people know how to be old.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • People
  • Know
  • Old

• And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • World
  • Think
  • Control

• As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Education

• Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Up
  • Live

• If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Law

• The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life

• Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Country
  • Hero

• I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

  

  Peter Cooper
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Why

• A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Want
  • Me
  • Fall

• The hard part for me is rest. I am a person who stays up late. If I go to bed early, I don't sleep, but I know I have to rest. That is always a struggle for me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Sleep

• This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Together
  • Sleep

• A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Help
  • Purpose
  • Helping

• Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Giving
  • Helping
  • Trouble