Edwyn Collins Quotes

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

Edwyn Collins

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• I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Cowboy
  • Hat

• The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Book
  • Together
  • Simple

• Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Peace
  • United
  • Spark

• What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Think
  • Civilization

• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • History
  • Human

• I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Hand
  • Try
  • Direct

• You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • American
  • You
  • College

• I don't like to talk about myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Talk

• I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Work
  • Persistence
  • Work Hard

• Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Me
  • Basketball
  • Run

• I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Good
  • School

• People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.

  

  Frances Burney
  • People
  • Live
  • Together

• I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?

  

  John Matuszak

• In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

  

  James Brown
  • People
  • Live
  • Nature

• The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Law
  • Christ
  • Righteousness

• Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Music
  • Business

• They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward.

  

  Aristotle
  • Drink
  • Drunk
  • Effects

• I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Wanted
  • Priest

• For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid for by the lower classes.

  

  Mette Frederiksen
  • Immigration
  • Movement
  • Price

• I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Wonder
  • Learned
  • High School

• I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

  

  Edwyn Collins
  • Wanted
  • Movement
  • Exciting