Billy Joel Quotes

They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone.

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• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • Song
  • Night

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Running

• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Parents
  • Reason

• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • You
  • Never
  • Process

• I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • I Can

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Opportunity
  • Change
  • Team

• The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

  

  Lance Ito
  • American
  • Day
  • Value

• Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Environment

• I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Think
  • Way
  • Meet

• I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

  

  Major Owens
  • Long
  • Business
  • Pressure

• When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Magic

• I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Work
  • Art
  • Man

• The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Difference

• When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Mother
  • House

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • World
  • Great
  • Me

• So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.

  

  Bill Joy

• I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

  

  Josh Zuckerman
  • People
  • Life
  • Alone

• The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Real
  • Bad

• They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Alone
  • Drinking
  • Sharing