Ilie Nastase Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
-
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
-
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
-
I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
-
Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
-
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
-
Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
-
I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
-
I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
-
I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
-
I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
-
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
-
I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
-
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
-
The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
-
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
-
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
-
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
-
I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all about POWER.
-
If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
-
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.
-
In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.
-
I have a lot of fans, but a lot of people don't know who I am.
-
You don't go to an X-rated movie if you don't want to watch it.
