Gibbons Quotes

#1. The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Robert Gottlieb

#2. Horace was a nice little guy who looked like one of his own baboons; he turned me over to a Doctor Vargas who was a specialist in exotic biologies
the same Vargas who was on the Second Venus Expedition. He told me what had happened and I looked at the gibbons, meantime rearranging my prejudices.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Okay, so I lied. He's nothing like Peter Parker. He's a bajillion times sexier than Peter Parker. Spiderman ain't got nothing on Zak Gibbons.

Cassie Mae

#4. Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

Wolfman Jack

#5. Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?

Roddy Piper

#6. I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

Aaron Neville

#7. My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

Gene Tunney

#8. I think Mike Gibbons was probably the greatest boxer that ever put a glove on. They called him The Wizard, The Phantom of the ring and he was that. I boxed with Mike about ten years and I never really hit him a hard punch during the time. Repeating again, Mike was one of the great boxers of the age.

Tommy Gibbons

#9. Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

Vincente Minnelli

#10. Mr. Gibbons had the talent that many puppeteers have of speaking to children as though he believed they were intelligent and could understand a thing or two.

Jesse Ball

#11. My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

Meg Cabot

#12. As a species we're pathetic in that way: imperfectly monogamous. If we could only pair-bond for life, like gibbons, or else opt for total guilt-free promiscuity, there'd be no more sexual torment.

Margaret Atwood

#13. The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians.

Olivia Newton-John

#14. Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Stella Gibbons

#15. We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.

Euell Gibbons

#16. Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.

Leeza Gibbons

#17. A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

James Gibbons

#18. What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will

Stella Gibbons

#19. Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit ...

Stella Gibbons

#20. There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.

Leeza Gibbons

#21. I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

James Gibbons

#22. Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

Billy Gibbons

#23. A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, "here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!

Paul Gibbons

#24. Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un ...

Billy F. Gibbons

#25. My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.

Leeza Gibbons

#26. Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions

Duncan William Gibbons

#27. Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Billy Gibbons

#28. Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

Beth Gibbons

#29. The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'.

Stella Gibbons

#30. Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

Billy Gibbons

#31. I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.

Beth Gibbons

#32. Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.

Paul Gibbons

#33. Well, unless I'm sitting atop you, what I weigh is really none of your business.

Brittany Gibbons

#34. He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

James Gibbons Huneker

#35. As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.

Paul Gibbons

#36. I've read two books a week for 30 years ... I'm satisfied I know everything.

Kaye Gibbons

#37. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

Paul Gibbons

#38. Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

Stella Gibbons

#39. For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

James Gibbons

#40. Hetty was eating, rather than reading, large slabs of a very thin book of contemporary verse each page having a thick wodge of print, without capital letters, starting at the top and running nearly to the bottom. Her eyes were very close to the book and she frowned with concentration.

Stella Gibbons

#41. Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.

Paul Gibbons

#42. The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

Euell Gibbons

#43. A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.

Paul Gibbons

#44. A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.

Euell Gibbons

#45. I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

Stella Gibbons

#46. The problem is not lack of competence, it is confidence without competence.

Paul Gibbons

#47. It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

Kaye Gibbons

#48. I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it's easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you're drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.

Dave Gibbons

#49. White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

Billy Gibbons

#50. But Julia thought it would be a much better idea if they went to see Mr Dan Langham in 'On Your Toes!' at the New Hippodrome, so they went there instead and had a nice time instead of a nasty one.

Stella Gibbons

#51. Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.

Paul Gibbons

#52. If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

John Gibbons

#53. A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how I want to present myself.

Beth Gibbons

#54. In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn't be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you're doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it's done ... .

Kaye Gibbons

#55. Just remember this: college is the most expensive place to be confused in the whole entire world.

Brittany Gibbons

#56. I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

Kaye Gibbons

#57. I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it ...

Billy Gibbons

#58. Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.

Paul Gibbons

#59. Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

Leeza Gibbons

#60. I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

Stella Gibbons

#61. You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.

Kaye Gibbons

#62. But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

Kaye Gibbons

#63. In God's economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle.

Dave Gibbons

#64. Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.

Stella Gibbons

#65. To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

Jim Gibbons

#66. There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'

Dave Gibbons

#67. I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.

Dave Gibbons

#68. I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.

Jim Gibbons

#69. Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience.

Paul Gibbons

#70. He was enmeshed in his grief. He did not notice that Graceless's leg had come off and that she was managing as best she could with three.

Stella Gibbons

#71. She liked to watch her father as he read, and to listen to the smoothly rolling tones; she felt no curiosity about what the words meant. It was only Shakespeare and she was used to him.

Stella Gibbons

#72. Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.

Stella Gibbons

#73. Mrs. Smiling's second interest was her collection of brassieres, and her search for the perfect one. She was reputed to have the largest and finest collection of these garments in the world. It was hoped that on her death it would be left to the nation.

Stella Gibbons

#74. Seeing color doesn't mean you're a racist. It means your eyes work, but that you are hopefully able to see color not for a discrepancy in normal, but as a beautiful component of diversity.

Brittany Gibbons

#75. When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

Paul Gibbons

#76. The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.

Paul Gibbons

#77. Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

Beth Gibbons

#78. Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.

Kaye Gibbons

#79. There are no office hours for leaders.

James Gibbons

#80. I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.

Dave Gibbons

#81. Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.

Alan Gibbons

#82. Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.

Euell Gibbons

#83. We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.

Beth Gibbons

#84. Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.

Stella Gibbons

#85. Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

Leeza Gibbons

#86. I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.

Leeza Gibbons

#87. An interesting survival of mediaeval superstition," commented Flora.

Stella Gibbons

#88. The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.

Paul Gibbons

#89. Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

Kaye Gibbons

#90. Dempsey could beat anybody he could hit. The only reason that he couldn't do anything with fellows like Tunney or Greb or myself was he couldn't hit us.

Tommy Gibbons

#91. Marie Laurencin.

Stella Gibbons

#92. People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.

Dave Gibbons

#93. I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

Dave Gibbons

#94. Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

Billy Gibbons

#95. Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.

Paul Gibbons

#96. I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Beth Gibbons

#97. A critic is a man who expects miracles.

James Gibbons Huneker

#98. When I was growing up, there was always somebody who wanted to pick a fight with me. I'd say, I'm not a famous boxer, my father is. If you want to fight somebody, go fight my Dad.

Richard Gibbons

#99. If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

Dave Gibbons

#100. Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.

Leeza Gibbons