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Tim Pigott-Smith Quotes

I love Stevie Wonder for his sense of rapture in the music. He can swing through a zappy tune, lift your heart, or drift into a sad ballad with consummate ease.

Tim Pigott-Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: May 13, 1946 - April 7, 2017

Topics

Love Music Heart Sad Wonder Swing

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

John Dickey

Education Power Direction Bad Create

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Trent Reznor

Music Character Writing Someone Like

I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories - completely terrified but absolutely loved them.

Tom Goodman-Hill

Loved Remember Young Understand Way

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.

Louis Kronenberger

Good Gentleman American Human Guy

These days, checks are direct-deposited, money comes out of a machine in the wall, and we swipe a plastic card to make a purchase. In other words, your kids can grow up thinking money comes in an endless supply if you don't show them otherwise.

Jean Chatzky

Money Words Thinking Grow You Wall

I'm not going to lie to you: I'd prefer not to go to the gym and not to run.

Corey Hawkins

Lie You Gym Go Run Going

Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.

Clint Smith

You Coat Take Off Blackness Remains

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Antonin Artaud

Man Long Try Human Right Despair

Claiming that Social Security benefits are safe may sound naive, but my view is actually quite cynical. I believe that as long as the elderly continue to vote in large numbers, no Congress will renege on promised payouts for those already eligible to receive benefits.

Richard Thaler

Believe View Long Security Numbers

Everyone needs something from me.

Lena Dunham

Me Everyone Something Needs

Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.

Julian Fellowes

Happiness Nothing Harder Than

For me, the best way to be as an artist is to be completely yourself, letting that vulnerability come through.

Gretchen Parlato

Best Yourself Me Artist Way Through