Alex Turner Quotes

There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal.

Alex Turner

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• I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Help
  • Think
  • Just

• I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Car
  • Chicago

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Like
  • Humor

• I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Know
  • Boundaries

• I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Drama

• Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Help
  • Think
  • Key

• When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Father
  • Thank God

• I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Players
  • Rather
  • Tricky

• The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Believe
  • History

• I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Children
  • Hate
  • Birthday

• I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.

  

  Kate Moss
  • God
  • Jam
  • Oh

• It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Life
  • Live
  • Journey

• The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Often

• The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

  

  Bruce Lee

• Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Mis verdades duran poco en mí: menos que las ajenas.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

  

  Mark Vonnegut
  • Life
  • Art
  • Luck

• Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Putin
  • KGB
  • Playbook

• When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Book

• Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.

  

  Gilberto Gil
  • Expectations
  • Becoming
  • Elements

• There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal.

  

  Alex Turner