Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes

Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.

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• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Home
  • Most
  • Google

• I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.

  

  Fleur East
  • Reason
  • Things
  • Happening

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Always
  • Charming
  • Rehearsals

• My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Children
  • American

• People don't usually compliment your character.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Character
  • Your

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Love
  • Done
  • Small

• When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Like
  • Stage

• Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • Done
  • Think

• You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp.

  

  Tecumseh
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Security

• When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• In as much as any invisible, unbelievable, unknowable fictional character is, yes.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Character

• I always swing at the ball with all my might. I hit or miss big and when I miss I know it long before the umpire calls a strike on me, for every muscle in my back, shoulders and arms is groaning, 'You missed it.' And be­lieve me, it is no fun to miss a ball that hard. Once I put myself out of the game for a few days by a miss like that.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Game

• 'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Family
  • May
  • Friends

• The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women

• My kids know there's no candy, no soda, until the weekend. Those are the days they get to indulge in their sweets. We're big on organic food. I'm not a diet guy; I don't believe in diets. I just believe in a great meal plan.

  

  Donald Driver
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Kids

• As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.

  

  Umar
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Truth

• I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I try to stand by that code, especially as a young Black woman in this industry. I try to walk the walk and talk the talk.

  

  V. Bozeman
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Truth

• The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Respect
  • Treated
  • Teeth

• What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Person
  • Pacifist

• Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Truth
  • Wrong
  • Arguments