Tubular Bells Quotes & Sayings

I know a song about him. But I thought he lived a hundred years ago.
We all did. Once I was as young as you. — George R R Martin

But to find where you are going, you must know where you are, and I didn't. — John Steinbeck

I first heard music while in the womb. My mom tells me she played Tubular Bells with the headphones against her stomach all the time. A bit disturbing as I believe that is the theme to The Exorcist. Maybe she thought she was having Satan's baby. — Venetian Snares

I realized sometime in the early '80s that if I didn't do something - like planning for the future in a way, a kind of pension or something - that if I didn't do something there and then, I was going to be condemned to forever present my three years as a pop star, condensed, as a stage act for the rest of my life. Because that's normally what happens to people in the pop business. — Nick Lowe

I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release] sold 8 or 10 million copies, I suppose, at age 19, I could've possibly retired on the money. Instead, I immediately pushed the boat and took that risk again. — Richard Branson

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
— Sidney Howard

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. — Werner Heisenberg

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire. — William Shakespeare

Wine came from grapes and grapes were fruit. If you were going to judge every wine connoisseur, you would also have to walk around the playground and slap the box of grape juice out of every child's chubby little hands as well. — Eric Dimbleby

Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more then from himself can fly By — John Milton