Bill Oberst Jr. Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Religion is induced insanity.
-
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
-
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
-
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
-
I've known Bret Michaels forever.
-
reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
-
(On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18
-
Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
-
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
-
Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
-
We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards.
-
I always try to travel light.
-
Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.
-
Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.
-
Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.
-
Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.
-
Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.
-
I have not invented anything, only the night I have sensed, and in it the new which I called Suprematism.
-
I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.
-
Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.
-
Lincoln could be on the moon. He's still Lincoln.
