Stuff Quotes

You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for 'The Passion of the Christ'? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.

Sleep is like the holy grail. My trainer says if you're tired, your workout will suffer. Sleep is magic stuff.

I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

I did other stuff before then, but I was sexually active at 20. I'm glad I waited for the right person, because you look back and you go, 'That girl was bats– crazy. I'm glad I didn't go there.'

I'm harmless. I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody. When people know you're that way, you can say stuff that the creepy guy at your office could never get away with.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it.

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

We've invented most of the stuff that we need and now we're just messing about

All of us are extremely competitive. We're kind of competitive with how we work on Radiohead stuff. Having said that, there's also a lot of support.

What happens if someone else has my eyes, and they start looking at stuff I don't like? I don't like the idea of that.

We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get to a point where all this is too heavy for the world to handle?

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

A modern Woman is not necessarily...s omeone who just buys expensive stuff... ...a modern Woman is someone who buys intelligently.

In the Mexican repertoire there's a lot of super delicious things you can do with vegetables and beans and grains and all that sort of stuff. So I can do this thing.

I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

I'm a little funny when it comes to blood and guts and stuff like that.

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

The thing I can say about all this stuff that's going on right now is that I appreciate it.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

I'm not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.

All my stuff is pretty seamless - like now, while I'm touring [Yesterday I Sang The Blues], today I'm going to go in the studio, I'm writing my next one. For me it's continual.

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps.

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.

I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.