H. C. Bailey Quotes

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

Time heals all things.

I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'

Thank God for Darwin, eh?

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

My favoured temple is an humble heart.

Work hard, save and live within your means.

The truth of truths is love.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.

I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.

I want to do something big, something important.

Doubt is the shadow of truth.

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

Imagination is the air of mind.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

The memory of the American public is about six weeks.

I love learning new techniques.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

My experience is, people who retire die sooner than they should have.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Error is worse than ignorance.

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day and the next year, and the year after that.

I'm not perfect, but I know when I start to do something, I don't like to not finish.

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

When pride thaws, look for floods.

Stupid National Anthem... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? "Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit."

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

It's the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.