Can't Be Arsed Quotes

#1. I'm so bored I could do something, but can't be arsed. I'm unmotivated as well as bored. It's a killer combination.

Gillibran Brown

#2. I can't be arsed with game players. I'm more 'I like you, do you like me? Let's go and do something about it.' I'm a very straightforward person like that.

Amy Winehouse

#3. All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its ... motivation. Thus vampires spend a lot of time lounging around and staring out of the window and finding they can't be arsed.

Glen Duncan

#4. Try to make every moment, the moment of your life.

Munazza Bangash

#5. Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.

Anders Holm

#6. Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.

Christian Bale

#7. Everyone loves a flawed hero. I don't want perfect people. I want people who have a story, have been through some shit, dance to their own beat and still make i work, not the fake-arsed posh fuck-wits who look down on us slightly geeky weird-but-cool entrepreneurs.

Dan Meredith

#8. In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

Bahman Ghobadi

#9. Yeah, beware the small man ... Always beware the small man. He'll fuck you every time. Because they never forget, do they? All that grief they got at school. Over and over, and for the rest of their miserable short-arsed lives, someone's got to pay.

John Niven

#10. Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

Robert Jordan

#11. I am not afraid to be a pioneer. When a door is ajar, you need to open it fully. And once you are in that room, you need to see what other doors there might be and where they might lead.

Gurinder Chadha

#12. The memories of our glories fade, and rot away into half-arsed anecdotes, thin and unconvincing as some other bastard's lies. The failures, the disappointments, the regrets, they stay raw as the moments they happened.

Joe Abercrombie

#13. Gin and whisky cost so much more. Oblivion and courage could no longer be purchased for the price of an old song.

Norah Hoult

#14. I'm a fucking razor-arsed starship, you maniac! I'm not male, female or anything else except stupendously smart and right now tuned to smite. I don't give a fuck about flattering you. The few and frankly not vitally important sentiments I have concerning you I can switch off like flicking a switch.

Iain M. Banks

#15. Oh how I hate you, you filthy. But you're cleaner than me, because you've got no mind to sell, just that poor flesh.

John Fante

#16. If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

Winston Churchill

#17. I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.

James Van Allen

#18. This is what you get in life. Wee flannel-arsed naebodies sittin' behind a desk tryin' to make you sweat in your stool. And see when they do? Y'can feel the wind-up key take another turn in your back.

Ian Pattison

#19. 'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work.

Jerry Leiber