Roland Orzabal Quotes

Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.

Roland Orzabal

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• My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Practice

• Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Sometimes
  • Working
  • Skills

• It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Up
  • Love
  • Books

• The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

  

  Ken Marino
  • Comedy

• I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Black
  • Violence
  • Police

• As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wise
  • Destiny
  • Cruel

• I walk the world in wonder.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Walk

• Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

  

  Umberto Saba
  • Life
  • Words
  • Light

• But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Constitution
  • Shakespeare
  • Englishman`s

• When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Opportunities

• I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Water
  • Fingers
  • Ships

• He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy – those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • World
  • Love
  • Sympathy

• There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Fun
  • Kind

• Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Power
  • Beauty
  • Influence

• Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

  

  David H. Levy
  • Want
  • Cats
  • Comets

• Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Inch
  • Cinch

• The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Imagination
  • Sings
  • Beasts

• If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

  

  Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
  • Honest
  • Compare
  • Criminals

• Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.

  

  Roland Orzabal
  • Honest
  • Bother
  • Piracy