Gary Numan Quotes
I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
Quotes to Explore
-
We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
-
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
-
I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
-
Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
-
Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
-
I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
-
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
-
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
-
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
-
As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
-
I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
-
Time is the devourer of all things.
-
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
-
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
-
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
-
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
-
Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
-
I'm an emotional guy.
-
I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony.
-
I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a peacock.
-
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
-
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
-
Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.
-
I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
