Banksy Quotes

'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'

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• I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Play
  • Lucky
  • Guess

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Lived

• You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
  • Pride

• I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Stress

• I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Together

• There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Change
  • Myself

• In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Proud
  • Stupid

• There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Like
  • Dance
  • Just

• I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • Nice
  • Party

• On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Impact

• Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Want
  • Poetry

• Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Age
  • Society
  • Recovery

• Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Hand
  • Judge

• All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning. You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heaven
  • Fierce

• 'There's no free will,' says the philosopher; 'To hang is most unjust.''There is no free will,' assents the officer; 'We hang because we must.'

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Free

• I look a lot like my father and his mother.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Look

• But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

  

  Jose Marti
  • Women
  • Help
  • Nature

• I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Rivers
  • Disneyland
  • Groves

• You’re just trying to find an audience who will love you and I’m not enough.

  

  Hank Green
  • Audience

• 'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'

  

  Banksy