Thom Yorke Quotes

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

Thom Yorke Radiohead

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

  

  B. B. King
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Why
  • Culture
  • Fish

• Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • America
  • Society
  • Political

• For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Me
  • Unique

• Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Work
  • Great
  • Saying

• I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Things

• When I left the Giants in 2014, my comments were emotional, insensitive, and misguided, and I truly regret and apologize for my actions. I am committed to working hard to contributing to the success of the Giants.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Success
  • Emotional
  • Regret

• It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • Best
  • Liberty

• In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Parents
  • College
  • Hand

• That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Together

• I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Science
  • Community
  • Always

• Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • She
  • Woman
  • Old

• Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Lost

• Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Why
  • Society

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Fall

• America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • America
  • Past
  • Education

• When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Society
  • Laws
  • Leaders

• Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on the wish for others to be free of their suffering and is associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Respect

• Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead