Greenwood Quotes

#1. It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

Bruce Greenwood

#2. Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

Frederick Greenwood

#3. What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

Sylvia Plath

#4. Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.

Kerry Greenwood

#5. When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Jonny Greenwood

#6. I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

Jonny Greenwood

#7. Your family is real, but mine isn't? Real people with real feelings, but my family isn't real to you. You think. I'm a character. A story. Those women you talk about. Not real people to you. Stupid women. I'm real. I'm as real as you are. My family is real like your family.

Bryn Greenwood

#8. Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not.

Kerry Greenwood

#9. You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

Kerry Greenwood

#10. No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.

Jonny Greenwood

#11. Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event.

Lee Greenwood

#12. Both had suggestive bulges in their pockets which told of either huge genitalia or trousered pistols.

Kerry Greenwood

#13. Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

Jonny Greenwood

#14. And everything with you is always so, I don't know, fucking heavy.

T. Greenwood

#15. That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

Lee Greenwood

#16. I feel like a child. But I learn a little something every day. It's like a whole new way of living. It's a willingness to give up control. To make a commitment and have faith it'll work out.

Leigh Greenwood

#17. You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.

Colin Greenwood

#18. To me personally, it's nothing personal to me

Ron Greenwood

#19. That's not the only thing love means. You just got your mind in the gutter.

Bryn Greenwood

#20. Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.

Ron Greenwood

#21. I wanted a fairy tale ending for Wavy, because if she could find happiness, there would be hope for me, too.

Bryn Greenwood

#22. My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.

Colin Greenwood

#23. It's always good business practice to eliminate any potential avengers.

Kerry Greenwood

#24. The places that once knew [Marie Antoinette] now know her forever.

Grace Greenwood

#25. conscious mind had enough to deal with right now without worrying about what mischief my subconscious was up to.

C. Greenwood

#26. It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

Ed Greenwood

#27. If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.

Kerry Greenwood

#28. Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.

Ed Greenwood

#29. Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.

Ed Greenwood

#30. Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

Lee Greenwood

#31. I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

Bruce Greenwood

#32. Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

Ed Greenwood

#33. I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.

Kerry Greenwood

#34. Piracy is a lot of fun; you should try it.

Kerry Greenwood

#35. I love you. I love you all the way.

Bryn Greenwood

#36. ... I'm a half-empty kind of girl.

T. Greenwood

#37. We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.
Piper

T. Greenwood

#38. Not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living!

Kerry Greenwood

#39. This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.

Kerry Greenwood

#40. I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!' ... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.

Jonny Greenwood

#41. A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

Colin Greenwood

#42. I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

Bruce Greenwood

#43. She had always found platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else.

Kerry Greenwood

#44. That's why I love playing shows, you've got thousands of people sharing their personal passion for the music with each other, it's such a wonderful thing to be able to curate.

Colin Greenwood

#45. Friends and flowers are two of God's most extravagant blessings. Nurture both. - Mimi Greenwood Knight -

Gary Chapman

#46. In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.

Kerry Greenwood

#47. Now of old the name of that forest was Greenwood the Great, and its wide halls and aisles were the haunt of many beasts and of birds of bright song; and there was the realm of King Thranduil under the oak and the beech.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#48. I've researched my readers and discovered that 93% enjoy my novels.

A.P. Greenwood

#49. I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

Colin Greenwood

#50. That's the problem with the Christmas story: most of the roles are for boys. The only girl is there because men can't have babies.

Bryn Greenwood

#51. It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

Jonny Greenwood

#52. Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

Colin Greenwood

#53. If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, Wake up and write the book!

Kerry Greenwood

#54. Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't.

Kerry Greenwood

#55. I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.

Colin Greenwood

#56. Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

Jonny Greenwood

#57. Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

Colin Greenwood

#58. When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.

Kerry Greenwood

#59. With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Bruce Greenwood

#60. Nothing belongs to you. It didn't matter that Grandma gave the cookbook to me. All Mama had to do was hold it in her hands and it was hers.

Bryn Greenwood

#61. There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

Ed Greenwood

#62. I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

Bruce Greenwood

#63. Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Kerry Greenwood

#64. With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.

Colin Greenwood

#65. We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.

Joan Greenwood

#66. I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.

Kerry Greenwood

#67. In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Colin Greenwood

#68. I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

Kerry Greenwood

#69. From Alpha Centauri, we were twin stars, side by side.

Bryn Greenwood

#70. I think everyone in the stadium went home happy, except all those people in Rumania

Ron Greenwood

#71. Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

Ed Greenwood

#72. No, really," said Jack, blushing to show that he wasn't embarrassed at all. "Do

Kerry Greenwood

#73. When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.

Ed Greenwood

#74. Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.

Colin Greenwood

#75. Longing that is deeper than want. It's not as simple as desire. It's more like missing something you've never had.

T. Greenwood

#76. The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief.

Kerry Greenwood

#77. I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.

Kerry Greenwood

#78. I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.

Jonny Greenwood

#79. It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.

Colin Greenwood

#80. She looked as plump and self-confident as the city pigeons outside, and as sure of her place.

Kerry Greenwood

#81. One can dare a lot if one is Emeritus,

Kerry Greenwood

#82. There are only so many stories in the world ... Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most writers have read very extensively in their genre and have become aware they are adding an extra layer to the meta-narrative, finding a new spin on the original.

Kerry Greenwood

#83. This is what I know: memory is the same as water. It permeates and saturates. Quenches and satiates. It can hold you up or pull you under; render you weightless or drown you. It is tangible, but elusive.

T. Greenwood

#84. Our lives consist of different seasons. Through them all, God's love and mercy never changes. - Mimi Greenwood Knight

Gary Chapman

#85. One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

Colin Greenwood

#86. Altogether, a pleasant place, marred by activities of unpleasant people whose qualities, perhaps, are sad reflections of sadder environments.

Walter Greenwood

#87. I remind my American readers that biscuits in England and Australia are crispy flat things such as you call cookies, and the soft doughy things you call biscuits are what we call scones. And they say we speak the same language ...

Kerry Greenwood

#88. I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.

Jonny Greenwood

#89. Memory is the same as water. It is a still lake bathed in moonlight, a vast ocean, a violent river ready to carry you away. It can calm you or it can harm you; it is both more powerful and weaker than you'd think. It is a paradox.

T. Greenwood

#90. One only has a few fragrant nights of spring. Store your memories for when you are old. You will enjoy them again under such a moon as this.

Kerry Greenwood

#91. That night I first saw you, I was going too fast. There I was rubbernecking at you and dumped the bike. Wrecked me up. I don't want to wreck us up like that. I don't want you to get hurt." She

Bryn Greenwood

#92. What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.

Jonny Greenwood

#93. The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

Lee Greenwood

#94. I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.

Ed Greenwood

#95. Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.

Kerry Greenwood

#96. I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Jonny Greenwood

#97. She wondered, briefly, if she was beautiful, decided she was and blew a kiss to her reflection

Kerry Greenwood

#98. I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it.

Kerry Greenwood

#99. His dad had always told him that the red-faced were blusterers, not to be taken seriously. 'But if you see a bloke who's pale and shaking, son,' Bert's father had instructed, 'then run like blazes, because he might flamin' kill you.

Kerry Greenwood

#100. I squirmed in my hiding spot. Do something, people," I urged. Say something. The silence dragged on. I imagined my first report to Maris. "We have underestimated our enemy. They are lethal. We are in serious danger of the Hancocks boring us to death. Abort, abort, abort.

Anne Greenwood Brown