Ed Gordon Quotes

When love is true there is no truer occupation.

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.

Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.

I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.

See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

Moore's law is really about economics.

If you do what you fear, you won't fear what you do.

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

[ Full English breakfast] it's what we grew up with! It is the one big treat that the kids get on the weekend - it's good family time.

I actually quite like [social media]. It's spontaneous, you don't really have to commit to it and I enjoy the interaction. Also, I have never sworn on there, not once.

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

I have to say, opening up in New York taught me a lot about that level of attention to detail. London's a tough market, Paris is a tough market, but New York, well, that's extraordinary.

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

Yeah, I've made some mistakes. Every guy makes mistakes.

Being up front is the only place to be.

Ever since I've been racing, I've always been the young guy.

I've been racing a long time, and I realize you go through good streaks and bad streaks.

I don't like to get beat in anything!

I think we have gotten through those brain dead moments on both our parts. Now we just love to race one another hard and clean.

So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It's like people are talking about, "Man we need to have a morning band reunion".

Walk down Forest Ave to Joey's Pizza like we used to do after performances, which doesn't exist anymore. We had a sense of community [in the school band].

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.

He loved me. He loves me not.

I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.

I have a really terrible sense of direction.

The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I've seen how he looks and it's really cool.

I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.

[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!

It's just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being.

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."