Brian Robertson Quotes

Some days are better than others ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

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• The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Great
  • War
  • Day

• Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Fashion

• What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Believe
  • Goal

• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Learned
  • Keep
  • Got

• You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Control

• Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Roles
  • Flirty
  • Adulterous

• I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Me
  • Listening

• When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • People
  • Band
  • Rock

• Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Sin
  • Judgment
  • Others

• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.

  

  Sam Kean
  • You
  • See
  • Brains

• People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Trying
  • Always

• Wack job in the back with a black stocking cap/Jacking off to a hockey mask in a boxing match

  

  Eminem
  • Job
  • Black
  • Boxing

• Fear arises sooner than anything else.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Fear

• I'm a big Gorillaz fan.

  

  Kali Uchis

• If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things.

  

  David Robinson The Cars

• I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

  

  Max Muller
  • True
  • Light
  • Reading

• You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Light
  • Idea
  • Bursts

• What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?

  

  Christian Harrison
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

  

  Barry Williams
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Black

• No Government can produce an economic miracle. An economic miracle depends on people on the shop floor, in the board room, in the sales office, working a bit harder and more efficiently than they have worked in the past.

  

  Denis Healey
  • People
  • Past
  • Miracle

• Some days are better than others ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

  

  Brian Robertson
  • Light
  • Journey
  • Tunnel