Bernard Gilpin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
-
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
-
Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.
-
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
-
There are no ugly women, only lazy.
-
In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.
-
The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.
-
I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it's good for me.
-
To most Alaskans, Clinton is remembered as being the one individual who has shut Alaska down by vetoing ANWR when we successfully moved it through the Congress.
-
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
-
Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces don't weigh in on the political process. In return, Americans have a sacred duty to treat them honorably.
-
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
-
Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.
-
When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me.
-
Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn.
-
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
-
In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.
-
Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.
-
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
-
Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.
-
A relationship is not two halves coming together to make a whole. Each of you is already complete.
-
The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.
-
I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly.
