Vivian Stanshall Quotes

Fear is the root of all courage.

Vivian Stanshall

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• Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Me
  • Saint
  • Contradiction

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Live
  • Universe

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • World
  • Women
  • Want

• OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Sports
  • Model
  • Same

• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Plan
  • Cannot
  • Unexpected

• In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • World
  • Death
  • Transformation

• What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Think
  • Working

• I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Best
  • Give
  • Unable

• There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Live
  • Adventure

• The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Evil
  • Beyond
  • Void

• If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dance
  • Successful
  • Tennis

• People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Brave
  • Week

• My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Law
  • Wife
  • Son

• I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Black
  • Feeling

• I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Greatest
  • Second

• The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

  

  Alan Cranston
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

  

  William Empson
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Roots

• Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.

  

  Edward Stettinius, Jr.
  • Security
  • Roots
  • Happinesss

• Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Death

• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Question
  • Happiness
  • Goals

• Fear is the root of all courage.

  

  Vivian Stanshall
  • Roots