Lot Quotes

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.