F. F. Bruce Quotes

Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.

I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain Let the brokenhearted love again Sherry, we can run with our arms open before the tide.

The future is a process, not a destination.

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it.

Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with.

Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

I like having the dough to come and go as I please.

They look right. And you move left.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

I spend my time on Crimewatch appealing for criminals on the run. Domestic violence is one of the few crimes I can think of where the victim is often forced to go on the run.

To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called.

I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a gimpy gorilla like me.

If I was a supervillain then I guess I'd want what all supervillains want, which is world domination. I wouldn't want anything less than all the other supervillains.

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.

I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

Communism is just one big telephone company.

But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise again.