Robert Wyatt Quotes
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
-
We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
-
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
-
You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
-
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
-
Reverence is fatal to literature.
-
I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
-
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
-
I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
-
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
-
There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
-
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
-
My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
-
It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
-
In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
-
Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
-
Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.
-
Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
-
The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.
-
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
-
Oh God - I look back now, and it seems so gross. At just 14 years old, I had to wear a thong bikini. And then they used that scene in the trailer, so my entire school saw it! There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!
-
The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
-
I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
-
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
