William Gurnall Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
-
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
-
I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
-
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
-
Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
-
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
-
I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
-
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
-
In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
-
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
-
In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
-
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
-
Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
-
I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
-
Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
-
I actually hate shopping.
-
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
-
I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
-
We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.
-
Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
-
Painting is an eye, a blinded eye that continues to see, and sees what blinds it.. ..this tiny little thing, which is nothing, which dominates life.
-
Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.
-
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
