Brian Wilson Quotes

Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.

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• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Sister

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Present

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • End
  • Watch

• I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Feel
  • Audience
  • Sensitive

• Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Chance
  • Hold

• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Bad
  • Lose
  • Election

• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Breakfast

• Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Time
  • Software
  • Fair

• We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Business
  • Food
  • Attention

• What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Might

• The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Titanic

• It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Start
  • Mountain

• By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

  

  James Monroe
  • Men
  • May
  • War

• Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Art
  • Imagination
  • Colors

• In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Experience

• Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.

  

  Brian Wilson
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