Tony Iommi Quotes

I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

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• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
  • Love
  • True
  • Inspiration

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Think
  • Media
  • YouTube

• Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • People
  • Myself
  • Singing

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health care
  • Heroes
  • Veterans

• When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Want
  • Like
  • Where

• I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Money
  • Want
  • Talk

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Work
  • Want
  • Room

• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fashion
  • Been
  • Psychiatrist

• Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Movies
  • Television
  • Shows

• If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Believe
  • Brain
  • Thoughts

• I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Love
  • Interesting

• The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Beauty
  • Photography
  • Sense

• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Book
  • Ignore

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

  

  Beck
  • American
  • Guy
  • Interesting

• Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Smart

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having this as a job gives me a sense of purpose beyond my own selfish needs.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Giving

• I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

  

  Tony Iommi Black Sabbath
  • Good
  • School
  • Job