Jarvis Cocker Quotes

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

Jarvis Cocker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 19, 1963

Topics

MoneyDietTryingLongYouLiving

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Jimmy Wales

ThinkRealityI ThinkExists

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

Melvil Dewey

MustHeLibrarianBeforeMilitant

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.

Robert Morley

PeopleYouTroubleEatTakeCook

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

Max Holloway

HairFaceYouHimPunchYour

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

Steven Wright

BirthdayDayTiredIdiotBornDiary

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.

Travis Barker

FoodDietNeedProteinJustChanged

I think cutting our defense capacity not only demonstrably diminishes our national security, but it has a tremendous negative impact in the long run on our economy because we end up having to fight wars and clean up after terrorist disasters.

Trent Franks

FightNegativeThinkEndImpactRun

Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself.

Rosie Perez

ArtMyselfCutOffEarVan

My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.

Lisa Jewell

MotherChildrenChildhoodStoryAsk

I have always been a martial arts fighter; it goes to back when I was eighteen. I was competing on the circuit, but when you're performing, you tend to pull punches because you don't want to hurt anyone.

Jason David Frank

HurtYouBackWantFighterAlways

When I started playing basketball, they always would have me at the block, and I'm like, 'Yo, I don't want to play down here. I want to do something else.' This is not entertaining to me, and whatever the guards do, I wanted to do.

Deandre Ayton

MeBasketballDownPlayWantAlways

I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.

Alison Owen

CollegeStoryLiteratureYouGoWay

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