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Pete Townshend Quotes

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

Pete Townshend

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: May 19, 1945

Topics

Good Performance Back Lights Rock

I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.

Jimmy Carr

Simple Snake Laugh Country Ladder

I certainly don't think that taxpayers should subsidize abortions.

John Fleming

Think Should Taxpayers Certainly

'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.

Ann Leckie

Me Sword Out Up Surprised Which

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

Jeffery Deaver

Work Alone You Need Level Some

When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I remember him saying how afraid he was that he hadn't gotten to do the things he wanted to do during his life. He had surgery and survived. And he's still alive today, thank God. But it made a big impact on me.

Jeffrey Skoll

Life Home God Today Day Me

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

Michael Huffington

War Body Will Protect Surgeon Out

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.

Sibel Edmonds

February Said Outside Point Because

If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.

Mason Cook

Ride Bike Loved Doing Acting Always

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Dennis Potter

Knowledge Child Lose Human Something

If you're on Twitter, what you're saying is, 'I'm important enough for you to care what I think.'

Donald Glover

Saying Think Care Enough You

I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.

Donatella Versace

Feel High Heels Naked Without High

All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.

David Shields

Good Wind Think Teeth Up Books