Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) Quotes

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

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• I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Good
  • Women
  • Violence

• I always wanted pink hair.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Pink

• I think a woman looks best in a sari.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Think
  • Best
  • Woman

• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Honor

• What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • World
  • Art
  • Doing

• I had so many faux-parents.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Parents
  • Many
  • Had

• Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Money
  • Change
  • Door

• I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Music
  • Public
  • Festivals

• Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Equal

• I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

  

  Mako
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Child

• In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Science
  • Crazy
  • Poverty

• 'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Little

• My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Me
  • Person
  • Grandmother

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Black

• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Life
  • God
  • Kindness

• Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Yoga is about how you live your life all of the time.

  

  Erich Schiffmann
  • Life
  • Yoga

• I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Different
  • Family

• He is still a long ways from being smooth in what we anticipate will be a system that he'll take to and enjoy, ... It's going to take him a while, as it will everybody, especially a guy who's a lead guard in a situation like that. It takes some time.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Guy

• Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

  

  Will Oldham
  • Sometimes
  • Certain
  • Order