Edwyn Collins Quotes

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

Edwyn Collins

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• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Human
  • Actor

• The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • You
  • Become
  • Less

• I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worth

• You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Wealth
  • Socialism
  • Dividing

• Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

  

  John Michael Hayes
  • Running
  • Forever
  • Waiting

• Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

  

  William Cowper
  • Pleasure
  • Judgment
  • Degrees

• Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Heart
  • Lies
  • Pray

• This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Giving

• Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

  

  Julie Kagawa
  • Persons
  • Noble
  • Mischief

• January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

  

  Sendhil Mullainathan
  • Study
  • Broken
  • Economics

• Imagine what seven billion humans could accomplish if we all loved and respected each other.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Humans
  • Loved
  • Accomplish

• Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

  

  James Woolsey
  • Oil
  • Obama
  • Producing

• Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Habit
  • Knowing
  • Loves

• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Calm
  • Pressure

• The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

  

  Andrew Delbanco
  • Culture
  • Craving
  • Transcendence

• I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

  

  Edwyn Collins
  • Not Believe
  • Producing
  • Old Man