Adele Quotes

There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'

Adele

• Dad
• Run
• Press
• Ammunition

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Children
  • Grandchildren

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Men
  • Family
  • Hand

• I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Good
  • Always
  • Making

• I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • Question
  • Wife

• When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Men
  • Women
  • Black

• The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Powerful
  • Media
  • Create

• Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Single
  • Data

• It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Women
  • Shopping
  • Habits

• The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Working

• A belief may be larger than a fact.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • May
  • Belief
  • Fact

• I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Success
  • View

• When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

  

  Kevin Rollins
  • Up
  • Growing

• The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Good
  • Money
  • Power

• My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

  

  Peter Higgs
  • Work
  • School
  • Why

• No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Worst

• There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'

  

  Adele
  • Dad
  • Run
  • Press