Mike Oldfield Quotes

Lost in Static 18 And the storm is closing in now Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell You're a prisoner of the dark sky The propeller blades are still And the evil eye of the hurricane's Coming in now for the kill

Mike Oldfield

• Storm
• Prisoner
• Trapped
• Hurricanes
• Propeller

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• Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Spring
  • Company
  • Storm

• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • Change
  • Sea

• From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Stop
  • Best

• I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Style
  • Try
  • Trapped

• (The Eurozone) resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And of course, the people in the third class, as in the Titanic, start feeling the drowning effects first.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Water

• When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Time
  • May
  • Truth

• As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,-Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Storm
  • Clouds
  • Sunshine

• And we're in the middle of a 'perfect storm.' These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • World
  • Bad
  • Growing

• I'm not a really big comic book person. I know the typical ones - 'Spider-Man' and 'Wonder Woman' and 'Storm' and that stuff. But don't quiz me, because I'm not good at things like that.

  

  Christian Serratos
  • Good
  • Book
  • Wonder

• The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.

  

  Lynn Westmoreland
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• I always say that when I was a kid, I only played with the Darth Vadar and Storm Trooper action figures. I gravitated toward the villains. I think it's a common thing.

  

  Chris Renaud
  • Action
  • Storm

• Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

  

  Christopher Plummer
  • Up
  • Evil
  • Storm

• Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Great
  • Storm
  • Recovery

• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

  

  John Muir
  • Tree
  • Storm

• There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

  

  Dennis C. Blair
  • Up
  • Community
  • Perfect

• What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

  

  Fritz Sauckel
  • Country
  • Storm

• Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.

  

  John Trudell
  • Power
  • Storm

• God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He doesn't give us the power to overcome.

  

  John Bevere
  • Giving
  • Storm
  • Overcoming

• Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mean
  • Wonder
  • Struggle

• Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Golf
  • Man's
  • Penance

• When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • May
  • You
  • Listen

• The challenge will be to get the big corporate customers giving them their business, but it might be difficult in reality.

  

  Chris Avery
  • Business
  • Giving
  • Challenge

• Lost in Static 18 And the storm is closing in now Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell You're a prisoner of the dark sky The propeller blades are still And the evil eye of the hurricane's Coming in now for the kill

  

  Mike Oldfield
  • Storm
  • Prisoner
  • Trapped