Bill Konigsberg Quotes

He's a good looking guy, no question. All bluster and confidence while I'm whatever the opposite of that is. Apologies and embarrassment. Awkwardness and sorrow. First dead in a zombie apocalypse.

Bill Konigsberg

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• Sorrow
• Apocalypse
• Embarrassment

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• I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Emotion

• You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Life
  • Run
  • Wait

• I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Health
  • Struggle

• Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Terrible
  • Price
  • Economics

• The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Money
  • Education
  • Need

• If ballots won't work, bullets will.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Work
  • Will
  • Bullets

• I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Blessings

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I was really fat in school.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • School
  • Really
  • Fat

• I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • More
  • Knowing
  • Comfortable

• The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Done
  • Kind

• I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Go

• Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Time

• I saw and loved.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Help

• That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Up
  • Money

• With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the personality in the music. 'Throwing Copper''s mission was to begin to get some of that back.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music
  • Lost
  • Personality

• I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Desire

• We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.

  

  Confucius
  • Mirror
  • Sorrow
  • Wise Man

• Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Animal
  • Coffee

• I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• Give me love, like herCos lately I've been waking up alone.The pain splatters teardrops on my shirt.I told you I'd let them go.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Pain

• He's a good looking guy, no question. All bluster and confidence while I'm whatever the opposite of that is. Apologies and embarrassment. Awkwardness and sorrow. First dead in a zombie apocalypse.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Confidence
  • Sorrow
  • Apocalypse