Bob Gill Quotes

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

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• Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Reality
  • Need
  • Writer

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Easy

• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Hate
  • Same
  • Sound

• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Poverty
  • Program
  • Eliminate

• Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Long
  • Wonder

• You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Me
  • Might
  • Entrepreneur

• Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • House
  • Man

• That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Country
  • Parents
  • Learning

• We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Thoughts

• The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Falling
  • Emptiness

• Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Coffee

• Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Faith

• What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • People
  • Bored

• I'm here to entertain.

  

  Pitbull
  • Here
  • Entertain

• Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • School
  • Bad
  • Learning

• I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mind

• I'm very confident in my point of view. 'Cause I think that that's all you can really have. I'm never really going to know what anybody else is going through, so it's just kind of your job to be expressive with your point of view.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Job

• I originally thought I would be going into wedding dresses. I wanted to create gowns, especially for weddings. I liked the idea of dealing with just one color, and within that, you could design whatever you want.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Design
  • Color
  • Wedding

• And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?

  

  William McDonough
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Food

• People mistake their limitations for high standards.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • People
  • High
  • Mistake

• When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

  

  Bob Gill
  • Design
  • Truthful