Ian Dury Quotes

'Spasticus Autisticus', On Countdown (Australia) 1981

Ian Dury

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• The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Important
  • Eyes
  • Face

• I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mom

• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Better
  • Satisfaction

• By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • World
  • Past
  • Education

• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Truth Is

• The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Basketball

• I want to be known as A.J. Styles, the WWE Superstar that he is, and have amazing matches, make memories - I think that's the goal.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Amazing
  • Goal
  • Memories

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Rights
  • Where
  • Limit

• If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Child
  • Understand
  • Born

• It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Me
  • Actor

• Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Heard

• The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Problem
  • Answer
  • Principle

• The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Family
  • Best
  • Like

• I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Really
  • Pictures

• It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Society
  • Best

• My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • High
  • Like
  • Feel

• Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

  

  Debra Ginsberg
  • Children
  • Emotions
  • Sorrow

• The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

  

  Misty Copeland
  • Thinking
  • Fixed
  • Misty

• Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and borrowing ideas across very kooky and unusual boundaries.

  

  Colin Camerer
  • People
  • Culture

• 'Spasticus Autisticus', On Countdown (Australia) 1981

  

  Ian Dury