Quotes About Tony Wilson

#1. There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

Tony Wilson

#2. If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

Tony Wilson

#3. They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

N. Scott Momaday

#4. Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Tony Wilson

#5. Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became big, green, and ugly.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur

#7. I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

Tony Wilson

#8. In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said

Tony Benn

#9. soothing seemed to work and soon the grunts petered away in to the rhythmic rasping of animal slumber. To keep the camel calm, he removed his saddle and unstrapped the heavy bag from its back, and took out his robe. In

Tony Wilson

#10. I would have loved to have been in 'Bottle Rocket' to take over Owen Wilson's character Dignan, because he's just awesome and amazing. I would have loved to have been in 'The Darjeeling Limited' maybe. I think that would have been a good one to be in.

Tony Revolori

#11. This is Manchester, we do things differently here

Tony Wilson

#12. Every word is a preconceived judgment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

Tony Wilson

#14. I'm a minor player in my own life story.

Tony Wilson

#15. I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me make in my own blood. And now I have returned to give you the promised blade.

T. Mountebank

#16. Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

Tony Wilson

#17. Karen makes her way back into the living room.

Colleen Hoover

#18. My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for all the groups. So you don't do it, particularly if people in California vote on it, don't want it, they think that the heterosexuality is a societal stabilizer.

Bill O'Reilly

#19. Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.

Owen Wilson

#20. I'll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more.

Tony Wilson

#21. I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

Anita Diament

#22. Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

Tony Wilson

#23. I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.

Tony Wilson

#24. Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

Angelina Jolie

#25. You were sick, but now you are well, and there is work to be done.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

Tony Wilson

#27. Didn't your mother ever tell you," Rob asked, "that you're supposed to play hard to get?"
I looked at his lips. I probably don't need to tell you that they're really nice lips, kind of full and strong-looking.
"What," I wanted to know, "is that going to get me?

Meg Cabot

#28. When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.

Tony Wilson

#29. Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.

Talib Kweli