Karl Urban Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I ended the war a horse ahead.
-
I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
-
I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
-
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
-
As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
-
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
-
I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
-
I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
-
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
-
I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
-
I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
-
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
-
I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
-
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
-
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
-
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
-
If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.
-
I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.
-
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
-
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.
-
Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.
-
I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.