Eddie Izzard Quotes

I'm a one-man idiot.

Eddie Izzard

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• I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Business
  • Look
  • Idiot

• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Write
  • Crime
  • Conflict

• I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Learned

• In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. … The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Time
  • Writing
  • She

• Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Desire
  • Failure

• I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

  

  Charlie Bewley
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Rugby

• When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Angry

• Instagram is great for us because it's encouraging people to shoot more stuff. Some of those snappers will become professional, and they may choose to sell their photos through us.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Real
  • Running
  • Problem

• He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Nature
  • Mystery
  • Idiot

• Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Funny
  • Sound
  • Idiot

• I don't know anything about making movies. I'd never been on a film set. I'm really kind of an idiot when it comes to figuring out where objects are in space. If they're both moving, I can't do the math. If you ever see me driving down a road, go somewhere else quickly.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Space
  • Kind
  • Moving

• What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Answers
  • Idiot

• Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Two
  • Three
  • Idiot

• If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Genius
  • Birth
  • Idiot

• That's not to say that I'm a well-informed Catholic. I'm still in idiot.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Catholic
  • Stills
  • Wells

• I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Happiness
  • Tree
  • Achieve

• Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • Done
  • Anger
  • Bitterness

• I'm usually in jammies and slippers by 8 P.M.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • Slippers

• People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic music." But they don't realize that so is the concept of actually taking a piece of extant music and literally re-collaging it, taking chunks out and changing the dynamics radically and creating new rhythmic structures with echo and all that. That's real electronic music, as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Realize

• I'm a one-man idiot.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Idiot
  • One-Man