Top 100 Quotes About Gil
#1. I can always tell when Gil's been with Enki, because he moves like he might start dancing at any moment and he hardly hears a word I say to him.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#2. Gil thought for a few seconds and replied, Yes, love is the answer.
Phil Wohl
#3. There's a general hate in the hearts of men. You went to war, Gil, you should know that better than anyone. It's like the heat of the sun. Men like Kaad are just the focal figures, like lenses to gather the sun's rays on kindling. You can smash a lens, but that won't put out the sun.
Richard K. Morgan
#4. Once, I was dining at their home," Gil said. "My fork fell, and I began to bend down to pick it up. When she, the daughter, didn't hurry to bring me a clean fork, he slapped her, just like that, in the face.
Ronen Bergman
#5. If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.
Pee Wee Reese
#6. More than any single issue, Gil's essential topic was America, how the nation had fallen away from its moral precepts and into ruin, a condition of spiritual malaise that would eventually deliver us the bigotry and psychotic greed of the Bush Era.
Steve Almond
#7. Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.
Herbie Hancock
#8. No one had more impact on my career than Gil Hodges. Playing for him was a
learning experience, and he was a tower of strength. Not everbody liked him, but
everybody respected him. He went about his job in a very professional manner,
and it caused me to do the same with my job.
Tom Seaver
#9. Gil's philosophy in all things is to seek the pain, woo the pain, recognize that pain is life. If you're heartbroken, Gil says, don't hide from it. Wallow in it. We hurt, he says, so let's hurt.
Andre Agassi
#11. Gil drives like he lives his life: In the fast lane.
Siobhan Davis
#12. I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.
Dave Brubeck
#13. When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.
Will Hermes
#14. Torremolinos has no Jesus Gil, no pretty little old town, and no resident celebrities to sing its praises.
David Hewson
#15. The upshot here is that Gil Scott-Heron is still a warrior, even if the front lines have moved. He's made a record not without hope but which doesn't come with any easy or comforting answers. In that way, the man is clearly still committed to speaking the truth.
Will Hermes
#17. He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.
Casey Stengel
#18. I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.
Kanye West
#19. Petite and with a rounded figure exaggerated by her tight dress, she was a beautiful mermaid swimming through the crowded street, and Gil felt like a petrified little fish in front of a shark. Maybe
Mala Spina
#20. That big fat oaf Gil Chesterton once said that the criminal is the artist, the detective only the critic ... he was wrong. I was an artist, for it is an artist's purpose to make order out of chaos. A criminal defaces; a detective restores.
Lavie Tidhar
#21. Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#22. He said, 'Ifemelu is a fine babe bu she is too much trouble. She can argue. She can talk. She never agrees. But Ginika is just a sweet gil.' He paused, then added, He didn't know that was exactly what I hoped to hear, I'm not interested in girls that are too nice
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#23. Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.
Jesse Harris
#24. If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.
Henry Rollins
#25. In 'Shadow Tag,' Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life.
Alan Cheuse
#26. America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
Adam Mansbach
#27. The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.
Paul Watson
#28. Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.
Meg Rosoff
#29. I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a clear cut pattern of people wanting to contribute, not only artistically, but in some practical purpose, for the benefits of the community.
Gil Scott-Heron
#30. Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.
Gil Amelio
#31. I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.
Amrita Sher-Gil
#32. When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in your body. If you do this, any meditation practice you do will be fruitful.
Gil Fronsdal
#33. It's easy to do what is not good And things that harm oneself. It's very difficult to do Things beneficial and good.
Gil Fronsdal
#34. I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!
Gil Gerard
#35. [ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba ...
Gilberto Gil
#36. Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.
Gil Scott-Heron
#37. Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the spirit of nature and the spirit of the universe.
Goa Gil
#38. I don't suspect that in many instances the artists who are dedicated in that fashion to the progress of that community are as well protected by the community as might be necessary.
Gil Scott-Heron
#39. By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.
Gil Kane
#40. I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.
Gil Scott-Heron
#41. I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.
Gil Scott-Heron
#42. I try not to take people who haven't really thought out what they're doing too seriously. I try not to let them get in the way of what I feel I need to do.
Gil Scott-Heron
#43. Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of.
Gil Gerard
#44. First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.
Gil Kane
#45. People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices.
Gil Fronsdal
#46. Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.
Gil Courtemanche
#47. You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.
Gil Scott-Heron
#48. Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.
Gil Gerard
#49. I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.
Gil Scott-Heron
#51. Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.
Gil Kane
#52. I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.
Jaime Gil De Biedma
#53. I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.
Gil Gerard
#54. As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.
Amrita Sher-Gil
#55. It indicates where the problem lies for Descartes. It lies in other people.
Paul C. Vitz
#56. If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.
Gil Scott-Heron
#57. Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.
Gil Gerard
#58. You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.
Gil Scott-Heron
#59. It's much easier than I thought it would be."
Most things in knitting are, really.
Gil McNeil
#60. People are funny sometimes, and that includes me. Every now and then we do or don't do something and we can't explain it, not even to ourselves. But do it anyway.
Gil Miller
#61. I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.
Gil Gerard
#64. But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.
Gil Kane
#65. Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.
Gil Fronsdal
#66. If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down.
Gil Scott-Heron
#67. Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.
Gil Fronsdal
#68. Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act
Gil Fronsdal
#69. Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.
Gil Hodges
#71. The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!
Gil Kalai
#72. If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.
Gil Scott-Heron
#73. It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.
Gil Fronsdal
#74. Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?
Gil Fronsdal
#75. I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, like 'Winter in America' and 'Secrets' and when there weren't a whole lot of people in the studios.
Gil Scott-Heron
#76. No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later.
Gil Gerard
#77. Buying a banner, you have no control whether ten different people see your ad once, or one person sees it ten times.
Gil Penchina
#78. ECKHART TOLLE: HELPING PEOPLE ACHIEVE INNER PEACE AND GREATER FULFILLMENT, A PREREQUISITE TO OPTIMIZED TRADING AND LIVING
Gil Morales
#79. Words are important for the mind, but the notes are for the soul.
Gil Scott-Heron
#80. That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.
Gil Amelio
#81. The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.
Gil Gerard
#82. DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.
Gil Kane
#83. He looked as if someone had machine gunned his soul.
Gil Brewer
#84. Giving a brief sermon, the Abbess once said, 'A hot furnace does not need to be heated. A loving heart does not need to be loved. Being loving is more important than being loved.
Gil Fronsdal
#85. I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.
Gil Scott-Heron
#86. I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and interpret it is corroding anything. Folks have the feeling that oftentimes if you don't talk about something it will go away.
Gil Scott-Heron
#87. I hate Earl Grey with a passion. It's like drinking stale perfume...
Gil McNeil
#88. It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
Gil Kane
#89. In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.
Gil Kane
#90. I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.
Gil Gerard
#91. The sign was done in blue lights and it kind of hung like a ghost there in the dripping trees. It swung and you could hear it creak. Just the sign, and nothing else.
Gil Brewer
#92. We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.
Gilberto Gil
#93. Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.
Gil Scott-Heron
#94. There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.
Gil Hodges
#95. Turn around, turn around, turn around
And you may come full circle
And be new here again
Gil Scott-Heron
#96. Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.
Gil Hodges
#97. Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving
Gil Fronsdal
#98. A unitary urbanism - the synthesis of art and technology that we call for - must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated.
Gil J Wolman
#99. I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.
Gil Scott-Heron
#100. My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.
Gil Scott-Heron
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