Nilsson (Harry Edward Nilsson III) Quotes

I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, "Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it".

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• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Fun

• I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Age
  • Responsibility
  • Sleep

• I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Music
  • Simple

• It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Work
  • Party

• Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Men
  • Live
  • Bread

• Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Face
  • Deal
  • Many

• We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Know
  • Attention

• Girls always make our music go. They set the trends. It starts with the ladies.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Music
  • Go
  • Trends

• No study is possible on the battlefield.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Study
  • Possible
  • Battlefield

• There comes a time when the student turns his back on the teacher. His playing cannot have the necessary security, autonomy, self-faith, or communicative power until he believes his interpretation is his own.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Time
  • Power
  • Faith

• On a little heap of BarleyDied my aged uncle Arly,And they buried him one night;-Close beside the leafy thicket;-There, his hat and Railway-Ticket;-There, his ever-faithful Cricket;-(But his shoes were far too tight.)

  

  Edward Lear
  • Night
  • Shoes
  • Uncle

• Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Up
  • She
  • Drama

• Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Money

• What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.

  

  John Barrowman
  • Different
  • American
  • Fall

• There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.

  

  Edward Heath
  • People
  • House
  • Wise

• She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • People
  • House
  • Kind

• Be your money's master, not its slave.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Money

• New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • New
  • New York

• I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, "Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it".

  

  Nilsson
  • House
  • Realized
  • Branches