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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• Apocalypse
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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

• Come, Benjamin, put your arm around me and we shall be comfortably one, mon semblable-mon frère!

  

  John Banville

• Rhett Bomar made a lot of plays, which will continue to give him confidence. He was much better in executing our passing game.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Game
  • Confidence
  • Plays

• I like to go to places with my high-fashion things where there are a lot of cameras. So I can just go there and be like, 'Yep, yep, I'm looking so sick.' But in my regular life, I put on clothes that I can climb trees in.

  

  Willow Smith
  • Tree
  • Sick

• I love playing roles where it's not just the good guy or the bad guy.

  

  Joshua Henry
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Role

• Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

  

  Denis Waitley

• 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