Bloodstock 2020 Quotes & Sayings

I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris. When I was 21, women were an enigma; they were this code that had to be cracked. They were 'The Other.' I have often thought writing this stuff into stand-up and shows would be an exorcism, but it hasn't been; it makes no difference. — Stephen Merchant

I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me. — Elif Safak

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy. — Edward Burns

If a woman's in my bed, it's because I want her there. I'm not a child who gets bored with his toys after five minutes. If the guys you've been with treat you like that, then you've been screwing round with boys. Would't you rather fuck a man? — Chanel Cleeton

My brain was so noisy and opinionated that it drowned out my heart. — Julia Day

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me. — Steven Morrissey

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Trueborn children are made in a marriage bed and blessed by the Father and the Mother, but bastards are born of lust and weakness. — George R R Martin

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us. — Franz Kafka

[Wagner] But the world, the hearts and minds of humankind,
Are subjects all men want to know about.
[Faust] What they call knowing, that I do not doubt.
But who dares speak his honest mind?
The few who ever did know anything
And we're such fools they gave their hearts free rein
And showed the mob what they had felt and seen,
Death on the cross they got or death by burning. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I think that he should keep a caravansary on the world's highway, where philosophers of all nations might put up, and on his sign should be printed, "Entertainment for man, but not for his beast. Enter ye that have leisure and a quiet mind, who earnestly seek the right road. — Henry David Thoreau

I want it all - and I would like it delivered. — Bette Midler

The half-truths have been in fashion again. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice. — Vironika Tugaleva