H. R. Giger Quotes

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

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• People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Misconception

• Music is my release.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Music
  • Release

• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Like

• Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Attention
  • Hurt

• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Think
  • Success
  • Follow

• Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Forget
  • Healthy

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Funny

• Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Without
  • Cake

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Real
  • Feeling

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Football
  • Laugh

• Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Myself
  • Try
  • Season

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Better
  • Class
  • Environmental

• Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.

  

  Brian Chesky

• I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Film
  • Foreigners

• Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Men
  • Real

• While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Words
  • Story
  • Trauma

• Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • World
  • Together