Robert Smith Quotes

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

Robert Smith The Cure

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• Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Rest
  • Knew

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

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Short

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Progress

• If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.

  

  Halsey
  • Done
  • True
  • Think

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Book
  • Relationship
  • Excited

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
  • Europe
  • Improve

• Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Opportunity
  • Innovation
  • Collaboration

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Democracy
  • Bring
  • Central

• Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Behavior

• I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Love
  • Couple
  • Born

• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Mind
  • Tired

• Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Broken
  • Speaking
  • One Thing

• Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Focus
  • Brand
  • Content

• I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Food
  • Party
  • Be Logical

• That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Life
  • Women
  • Age

• I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • College

• I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Life