Alex Kapranos Quotes

Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.

Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand

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• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Couple
  • Loss

• I am the worlds laziest writer.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Writer
  • Laziest

• I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Protective

• News photography teaches you to think fast.

  

  Weegee
  • Thinking
  • Photography
  • Teach

• One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Up
  • Live
  • Century

• The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Life
  • Real
  • Appearance

• I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Jaguars
  • Cougars
  • Pumas

• These guys are pretty resilient. They don't hang their heads too long, which is really good. I really like that about them.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Good
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• You want me to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Sandwiches
  • Butter

• What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Doing
  • Forests
  • Mirror Reflection

• No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Women
  • Persons
  • Security

• On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Felt
  • Prospects
  • Humankind's

• We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sleep
  • Parent
  • Perfection

• I can do a gig without an instrument.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • I Can
  • Without
  • Instrument

• I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Guitar
  • Instrument
  • Attached

• Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Instrument
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Right Way