Billy Childish Quotes

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.

Billy Childish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 1, 1959

Topics

WorkLoveMyselfBecauseDifferent

Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.

Joe Bastianich

LiveFoodPastaEatWithoutFuel

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

Jock Sturges

ArtistSeeingWayBeingAttracted

To die is landing on some distant shore.

John Dryden

DieShoreLandingSomeDistant

Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church.

Tony Evans

LeadershipPeopleGenerationChurch

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

Tony Parsons

LiveAloneWorldThinkEndDoing

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

Rocco Buttiglione

HistoryHateFrustrationPeaceful

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Lord Byron

CompassionSympathyDewTear

A wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We're quick to lash out and assign blame, but we also draw from deep reservoirs of forgiveness.

Judy Smith

LoveForgivenessQualityBlameDeep

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

Janice Dickinson

MistakesBeenJustDisappointments

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

Joni Mitchell

GodEvilOldOld TestamentTestament

I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.

Debra Granik

LookingThinkLookUnderstandWay

Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

OpinionNegativeYouCubaExploring

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