Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.
Quotes to Explore
-
If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
-
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
-
What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.
-
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
-
It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
-
I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
-
As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.
-
Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.
-
To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
-
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
-
The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.
-
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
-
I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
-
She had a need to feel the thunder,To chase the lightning from the sky,To watch a storm with all its wonderWritten in her lover's eyes.She had to ride the heat of passionLike a comet burning bright,Rushing headlong in the windNow where only dreams have been,Burning both ends of the night.
-
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
-
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
-
It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult.
-
I would love to get in trouble with the Catholic Church. I'm not religious myself, but my issue is with the organization. It's an organization of men - it's not about faith.
-
What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, everyone and anyone is around. So if people get to see themselves on the stage, they'll want to come.
-
I always say what I think... I'm not brave - I just have no filter.
-
Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'
-
I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.
-
A lot of times I pick passion projects but at the end of the day, I don't think much of what's going to work, I want to think about how it feels to do the work.
-
It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.
