Gil Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Gil Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.— Gil Scott-Heron

Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion.— Gil Kalai

Look, I say. You can't just let your thoughts float around in the ether and hope eventually they'll connect with something. It's absurd.— Meg Rosoff
No, it's not, Gil says. Lots of good things happen that way. Penicillin. Teflon. Smart dust. Something happens that you weren't expecting and it shifts the outcome completely. You have to be open to it.
When I open my brain, I tell him, things bounce around and fall out. They don't connect with anything. Maybe I haven't got enough points of reference stored up yet.
You're young, he says, that's probably it. When I let my thoughts float around, I trust that they'll latch on to something useful in the end or make an association I wouldn't necessarily have predicted. I'm trusting that they'll find the right thought to complete, all by themselves. The right bit of fact to ping. You have to trust your brain sometimes.

Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.— Will Hermes

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.— Gil Kane

She was like steel. It was in her eyes, and in her voice, and in the fine, shining look of her. From the sparkling ankles to the expensive-crink of a hat. She looked sexy and untouchable, the way they can look if they want. She looked expensive.— Gil Brewer

Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny and very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have.— Gil Evans

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

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.— Gil Scott-Heron

You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.— Gil Fronsdal

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.— Gil Courtemanche

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

Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.— Gil Scott-Heron

My Japanese isn't much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.— Gil Asakawa

ECKHART TOLLE: HELPING PEOPLE ACHIEVE INNER PEACE AND GREATER FULFILLMENT, A PREREQUISITE TO OPTIMIZED TRADING AND LIVING— Gil Morales

What is a country for someone who is neither a soldier nor a rabid patriot? A place of subtle affinities, an implicit understanding between the land and the foot that treads it. A familiarity, an agreement, a secret sharing with the colours and smells of it. The impression that the wind is with us and is sometimes carrying us. A renunciation that does not imply acceptance of the idiocy and inhumanity that the country nurtures.— Gil Courtemanche

The critical ingredient is a maverick mind. Focus on trading vehicles, strategies and time horizons that suit your personality. In a nutshell, it all comes down to: Do your own thing (independence); and do the right thing (discipline).— Gil Blake

Which is an interactive sport for our family, since Gil likes to groan over the writing and point out the plot twists ahead of time, and Jeremy tears his hair out over the historical inaccuracies, and Dad makes corny jokes, till Mom reminds us, loudly, that some people are trying to watch the movie. Then we'll all quiet down for about five minutes, until Olivia remarks that the costume designer should have dressed the star in kitten heels instead, because it's a lot harder to run in stilettos.— Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalgamating process. More than just a mixing process, it is an amalgamation where the fragments, the parts in collision, really interact profoundly. They become another thing after the contact.— Gilberto Gil

Me?" he said in some surprise. "I won't be dancing! It's the bridal dance. The bride and groom dance alone!"— John Flanagan
For one circuit of the room," she told him. "After which they are joined by the best man and first bridesmaid, then by the groomsman and the second bridesmaid."
Will reacted as he had been stung. He leaned over to speak across Jenny on his left, to Gilan.
Gil! Did you know we have to dance?" he asked. Gilan nodded enthusiastically.
Oh yes indeed. Jenny and I have been practicing for the past three days, haven't we, Jen?"
Jenny looked up at him adoringly and nodded. Jenny was in love. Gilan was tall, dashing, good-looking, charming and very ammusing. Plus he was cloaked in the mystery and romance tat came with being a Ranger. Jenny had only ever known one ranger and that had been grim-faced, gray-bearded Halt.

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.— Gil Kane

Here was a man who wore his scars on the outside and held a merry heart within. How much better that was than its opposite.— Gil Adamson

She looked hot enough to catch fire, but too lazy to do anything but just lie there and smoke.— Gil Brewer

Buying a banner, you have no control whether ten different people see your ad once, or one person sees it ten times.— Gil Penchina

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

Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.— Gilberto Gil

I'd say that I'm super proud of only four or five things I've done, but mostly I'd like to be remembered as a really good actor who people enjoyed watching.— Gil Bellows

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

Now you can create your own Q&A site and be recognized as an expert on any topic you're passionate about in a way that is fast and easier than starting a new website.— Gil Penchina

Visual design is always a collaborative process between the director and the cinematographer. According to the best-case scenario, the director and cinematographer challenge each other as equals, and ultimately synthesize their differing approaches into a superior collective decision. But for this to be the case, the director must be as good a shot maker as the DP. If he is the weaker partner, then the look of the finished film will not be his— Gil Bettman

Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.— Gil Penchina

Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series.— Gil Gerard

In the U.S., Wikia has content sponsorships with top brands, including Blizzard Activision, Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, ABC Television and others.— Gil Penchina

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.— Gil Kane

No one in that city understands, Gil, because it doesn't matter to them anymore. They've never learned to fear the steel and the men who carry it, and none of them ever will, because they don't have to. Because in this place I've seen, men like that don't exist anymore. We don't exist anymore.— Richard K. Morgan
Sounds like a beautiful fucking place. How do I get there? Ringil grinned fiercely up at the Kiriath clan captain. Oh wait - you're going to tell me the rents are sky-high, right? And how am I going to earn a living if they keep their swords in a museum?

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba ...— Gilberto Gil
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Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.— Gil Garcetti

We should just get a giant bottle of bargain vodka or something," Gil said, pushing his gorilla mask back on his head.— Sara Zarr
"Not classy," Steph said. "This is a special night, not a frat party."
"Special? Classy??" Ethan asked. "Steph. We're seniors in high school going trick-or-treating. We look like third-rate street performers.

I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job.— Gil Scott-Heron

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.— Gil Kane

Freedom from clinging allows us bring love into all aspects of our life.— Gil Fronsdal

I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.— Gil Gerard

Gil thought for a few seconds and replied, Yes, love is the answer.— Phil Wohl

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.— Gil Scott-Heron

He was a sensitive man and many people had caused him anguish.— Gil Brewer

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

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.— Gil Kane

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

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.— Gil Kane

The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister speaking about progress for Black people than if you are a sure enough revolutionary.— Gil Scott-Heron

Greater in combat Than a person who conquers A thousand times a thousand people Is the person who conquers herself.— Gil Fronsdal

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

A good poet feels what his community feels.— Gil Scott-Heron
Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.— Meg Rosoff

Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.— Gilberto Gil

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.— Gil Scott-Heron

I'm letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn't work well.— Nikki Gil

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.— Gil Scott-Heron

Listen to yourself. Poor martyred Louisa. I predict that Fellows will solve this murder and then sweep you off your feet." Daniel shrugged. "Well, the sweeping-you-off-your-feet part might take a little nudge. But he wants to do it. It's a beautiful thing to watch the way he looks at you. Fellows glared at Gil tonight as though he wanted to find a claymore, learn how to use it, and finish him off. Or just pull out a pistol and shoot him.— Jennifer Ashley

A lot of folks are so busy trying to get their groceries together that they don't have time to do research. I have time. Maybe that's the main difference.— Gil Scott-Heron

I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.— Gil Gerard

I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.— Gil Scott-Heron

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.— Gil Fronsdal

If you want to attain peace, live peacefully— Gil Fronsdal

You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life.— Gil Scott-Heron

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.— Gil Fronsdal

Generosity is not limited to the giving of material things. We can be generous with our kindness and receptivity. Generosity can mean the simple giving of a smile or extending ourselves to really listen to a friend. Paradoxically, even being willing to receive the generosity of others can be a form of generosity.— Gil Fronsdal

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

She did, she really told her. She was pretty scary, actually,"— Gil McNeil
"The best women always are, love; you don't get to my age without realizing that.

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

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.— Casey Stengel

She looked slick as hell; polished, neat, and with that feminine deadliness that can drive you nuts. They work on it till they get complete control of the situation. There's no use trying to break them down. They've made it.— Gil Brewer

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.— Gil Kane

The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.— Gil J Wolman

It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason.— Gil Scott-Heron

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

He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.— A. Lee Martinez

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

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

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

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

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?— Gil Kalai

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

Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better.— Gil Hodges

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.— Gil Kane

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.— Gil Scott-Heron

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.— Gil Penchina

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.— Gil Scott-Heron

And I think, OK. So a dog isn't the most important thing. But a dog like Honey loves one person completely, unwaveringly, with perfect faith. That has to be more important than most things.— Meg Rosoff
And Gabriel, I say. He has Gabriel too.
Gil says nothing but I know the answer. The answer is that Gabriel can't save Matthew any more than Gil can, or Honey. Or Jake. But we are all woven together, like a piece of cloth, and we all support each other, for better or worse. Gabriel is just a baby but eventually he will see the world and his father as they are: imperfect, dangerous, peppered with betrayals and also with love.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.— Gil Gerard

Words are important for the mind, but the notes are for the soul.— Gil Scott-Heron

R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about two crimes - one famous, one all but unnoticed - is loaded with tension and full of unexpected twists and turns. I loved The Kennedy Connection, and can't wait for the next Gil Malloy novel.— Jan Burke

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

Grom-gil-Gorm," she said softly as she rode between Laithlin and Yarvi. "Breaker of Swords." Mother Isriun's horse shied back out of her way. "Maker of Orphans." Thorn reined in beside him, his frowning face lit red by the blazing light of her elf-bangle, and she leaned from her saddle to whisper.— Joe Abercrombie
"Your death comes.

All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.— Gil Kane

The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents.— Gilberto Gil
