Beth Revis Quotes
But death doesn't work like that. It doesn't care if someone loves you, doesn't want you to go. It just takes. It takes and it takes until eventually you have nothing left.
Quotes to Explore
-
Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
-
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
-
I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
-
You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
-
I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
-
I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
-
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
-
Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
-
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
-
I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
-
I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
-
I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.
-
I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
-
Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
-
In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
-
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
-
Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
-
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
-
Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.
-
The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instead, it's to remember that everyone else is feeling it, too. We're all in deep water. Which is fine: it's by far the most exciting place to be.
-
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
-
My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.
-
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
-
But death doesn't work like that. It doesn't care if someone loves you, doesn't want you to go. It just takes. It takes and it takes until eventually you have nothing left.
