Portishead's Quotes

#1. Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.

Anders Holm

#2. Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.

Sean Price

#3. That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

John Green

#4. 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

#5. I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

Beth Gibbons

#6. Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.

Augustine Of Hippo

#7. Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

Michelle Bachelet

#8. "You listen to Portishead, you're not like the others. Want some coke?" I'm like, "Nah, man."

Sean Price

#9. When you look at the ... atmosphere on the limb of the Earth, I wouldn't say it looks unhealthy, but it definitely looks very, very fragile and just kind of like this thin film, so it looks like something that we definitely need to take care of.

Scott Kelly

#10. I want a pit crew ... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

Dave Barry

#11. The posters and rock-star buttons and banners were valueless without the perspective of the mind that had attached significance to them. Souvenirs have no worth without nostalgia, after all. They're meaningless if a memory isn't linked to them.

David Morrell

#12. My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

Beth Gibbons

#13. If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of ... it's sort of like a domino effect.

Emma Watson

#14. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. Acting is my job.

Goran Visnjic