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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
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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.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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.
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Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.
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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.
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Imagine what seven billion humans could accomplish if we all loved and respected each other.
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You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
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Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.
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I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.
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Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.
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I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated with Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. I was constantly aware that those who hired me would have preferred to work with a star such as Avedon. But it didn't matter. I had work and I made a living. At the same time, I took my own photographs. Strangely enough, I knew exactly what I wanted and what I liked.
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I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.
