Bloody Quotes - Page 2

• What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, War, Patriotism

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz (2003). “A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce”, p.208, Ohio State University Press

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• Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

  William Ernest Henley

  Unconquerable Will, Statistics, Chance

  "Invictus" l. 5 (1888)

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• It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.

  Shane Warne

  Difficult

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• You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

  T Bone Burnett

  War, Hippie, Hatred

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• Absurdity is what I like most in life.

  David Lynch

  Absurdity Of Life, Absurdity, Pulp

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Comfort, Want, Matter

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• I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.

  Geezer Butler

  Soccer, Play, Watches

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• When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

  Ben Nicholson

  Girl, Regret, School

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• I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

  William Kempe

  Hard Work, Unique, Lakes

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• I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Hard Work, Thinking, Musician

  FaceBook post by Gavin Rossdale from Mar 26, 2012

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• I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Thinking, Want, Able

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.

  Imelda Staunton

  Jobs, Doe, Looks

  "Vera Drake: Imelda Staunton about Mike Leigh". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. February 9, 2005.

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• The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

  Richard Land

  Cat, Grandmother, Aunt

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• Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Night, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 45

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• An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

  Billy Bragg

  America, Use

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• Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Book, Writing

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• If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

  Nikki Cox

  Fake People, Nails, Would Be

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• The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Conspiracy

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• I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

  Tara Reid

  Art, Tabasco, Gross

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• Part of me wanted something bloody and really fun.

  Nicole Sullivan

  Fun, Having Fun, Wanted

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• I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

  Alexis Korner

  Musician, Way, Good Way

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• I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Politics, Serious

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• To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

  Gary Lucas

  Way, Rhythm, Idiom

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• I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

  Julie Walters

  Daughter, Mother, Hell

  "Still Walters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

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• The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

  Charlie Watts

  People, World, Crap

  "The Rolling Stones: Notes from the Babylon Bar". Interview with Chris Heath, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 1997.

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