Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.

Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace

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• 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.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Romantic

• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Interesting
  • Taken
  • Regret

• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Down

• A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Money
  • Food
  • Fly

• Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Forget
  • Legal

• There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Morning
  • Distance
  • View

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • You
  • Down

• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

  Beck
  • First
  • Generation
  • Kid

• We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • People
  • Way
  • Better

• Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Music
  • Important
  • Day

• No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Trying
  • She

• When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Say
  • Walk

• My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Everyone

• I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Food

• I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Girl
  • Small
  • Myself

• I will fill my life with so much of positivity, happiness and brilliance that God will one day say with utmost pride.

  

  Harshada Pathare
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Positivity

• In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Worked
  • Adam
  • Billy

• I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process

  

  William Hurt
  • Acting
  • Knows
  • Creative

• Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm — hello there), clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Country
  • War
  • Mean

• Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to the soldiers' problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he is wrong.

  

  William A. Connelly
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Situation

• Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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