G.R. Elton Quotes

I've always been dead set against festivals, really suspicious and wary.

We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it's - certainly, without America, we'd be facing catastrophe.

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

They [sic] ain't gonna stop me from coming here, baby.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

I've got a great collection of photography.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

I've been coming to America since 1970, and it's like my second home, but I've never felt such a divided country, ever. I didn't think it would get to this point, and it breaks my heart.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

I've been going to Russia since 1979. I've been going quite frequently, and I've always had a wonderful rapport with the Russian audiences and with the Russian people.

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.

I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.

...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all and it's relaxed me.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

You should never take more than you give

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.