John Grant Quotes

The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.

John Grant

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I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.

Melissa Rosenberg

SayingLovedTryingYouKnowBeing

We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them.

Michael J. Saylor

TimeLearnYearKnowMatterKid

People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music.

Shirley Manson

LifeMusicMemoriesJoyPeopleFind

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Robert Walpole

PatriotismPatriotUpDemandStarts

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

Ron Reagan

MotherMorningFirstOutHerSaw

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

Mika

MusicWriteEverythingOutVisual

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

Douglas Adams

ExperienceBookYearYouRunFirst

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

Brian Eno

FindNewFabulousAlwaysJustWould

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

Chuck Todd

BelieveThinkWashingtonCorrupt

When you look around Silicon Valley at new companies, there are very few ideas that are going to make a dent in the universe.

Brad Garlinghouse

IdeasUniverseYouLookNewGoing

When I was with WWE before, I was a big guy throwing people around - power moves. Then after that, when I left WWE, I was like, 'I still enjoy professional wrestling,' but some of the smaller guys look up at me and say, 'I don't wanna wrestle him. I don't wanna get thrown around by that guy.'

Bobby Lashley

PowerPeopleMeEnjoyLookSay

There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a milk bottle or a tiger.

Timothy Morton

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