Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
If I hadn't been living here in America, do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
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Anything I have blown a lot of money on? Well, I have three daughters and a wife - that's four women, and I'm working on a sitcom, so you could say that I am just trying to stay alive!
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The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.
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Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
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When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.
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I still say the '94 Double team is the best. They could outfight you or outplay you, depending on the way you wanted it. But this side is moving in the same direction.
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If I hadn't been living here in America, do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.
