Oliver Sykes (Oliver Scott "Oli" Sykes) Quotes

I was extremely unpopular at school. Once the hardest kid in school beat me up and there was a plan for about 30 other kids to kick me in the face once I was down. Good times!

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• Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Always
  • Same
  • News

• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Building
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Show
  • Materials
  • Tease

• The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Nature
  • Story
  • Lovers

• When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Find
  • Information
  • Blessing

• I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Focus
  • Look
  • Looking Forward

• I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Stories
  • Books

• I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Get
  • Through
  • Notes

• Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Step
  • Only
  • Higher

• I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.

  

  Taki Theodoracopulos
  • Life
  • War
  • Rest

• I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • Small
  • City

• I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Security
  • Citizen
  • Paths

• Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Women
  • Black
  • Forever

• Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Guy

• The principal cause of war is war itself.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • War
  • Cause
  • Principal

• I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Kids
  • Clothes
  • Plan

• Moorcock's interlinked 'Eternal Champion' series is a constant source of enjoyment. Of its tragic hero incarnations, my favourite is 'Elric of Melnibone,' and the best book has to be 'Stormbringer.' And as for that other sword, Excalibur? Pah! Use it to spread your butter.

  

  Neal Asher
  • Book
  • Hero
  • Champion

• What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Experience
  • Depression
  • Normal

• Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.

  

  E. Cheraskin
  • Food
  • Die

• If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

  

  Danny Glover
  • Kids
  • Environment
  • Racism

• I was extremely unpopular at school. Once the hardest kid in school beat me up and there was a plan for about 30 other kids to kick me in the face once I was down. Good times!

  

  Oliver Sykes Bring Me the Horizon
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  • Kids
  • Faces