Greenwood Quotes

She had always found platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else. ~ Kerry Greenwood

The places that once knew [Marie Antoinette] now know her forever. ~ Grace Greenwood

Robinson had long mastered the art of coming instantly awake, a skill which had proved invaluable when his children were young. He could be out of his bed, supplying nutriment, water, or a story, before his wife turned over in her sleep. He attributed his long and happy marriage to the fact that unlike most mothers, his wife got to sleep through the night when he was at home. ~ Kerry Greenwood

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them. ~ Jonny Greenwood

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am. ~ Kerry Greenwood

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam. ~ Sylvia Plath

But I've learned that if you fake your death, don't come back. Not for your wife. Not for your girlfriend. Not for your kids. If you fake your death, don't do it at sea. Go for a hike. If you're interested in claiming a life insurance payout, don't get greedy. Keep the policy modest. Don't bother with a stand-in body and an elaborate funeral. Spend your time and money on obtaining quality authenticating documents. In your new life, commit to a disguise for your new identity and use your real first name. Don't google yourself and lead your hunters to your hideout. And for the love of God, don't drive if you're supposed to be dead. Ditch the car. ~ Elizabeth Greenwood

It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written. ~ Ed Greenwood

They are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. Look at that one - you'd swear he had been hitting the gin. ~ Kerry Greenwood

The professor's motive was in the grand scheme of things terribly petty " Greenwood said. ""Pilate's Cross" is inspired by the questions this terrible crime created but as a work of fiction it is set in a different place and time and has a more complex motive for the murders. ~ J. Alexander Greenwood

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good. ~ Jonny Greenwood

If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop. ~ Jonny Greenwood

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways. ~ Colin Greenwood

Oh wondrous,' murmured Lin Chung. 'Oh, water, mistress of earth, valley spirit, eternal feminine!'
'Taoism again?' Phryne leaned close to hear what he was whispering.
'From the "Tao Te Ching." The old Master should have seen this. All made by water, the female, cold, moon principle.'
'Yin,' said Phryne. 'This is the womb of the earth.'
'Indeed.' He took her hand. 'Completely foreign to all male, hot, sun creatures.'
'Like you?'
'Like me. Yang can only admire and tremble.'
'Come along.' She led him into the centre of the huge space. 'We don't want to get lost in the earthmother's insides. ~ Kerry Greenwood

Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends. ~ Ed Greenwood

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from. ~ Bruce Greenwood

I was lying on the tracks under a train I was in love with. ~ Bryn Greenwood

You've been making a regular habit of flinging yourself in front of bullets," she remarked amiably. "It's really not a good custom. Curb this tendency to self-immolation. ~ Kerry Greenwood

Amor fati: this is the very core of my being - And as to my prolonged illness, do I not owe much more to it than I owe to my health? To it I owe a higher kind of health, a sort of health which grows stronger under everything that does not actually kill it! - To it, I owe even my philosophy. ... Only great suffering is the ultimate emancipator of spirit, for it teaches one that vast suspiciousness which makes an X out of every U, a genuine and proper X, i.e., the antepenultimate letter. Only great suffering; that great suffering, under which we seem to be over a fire of greenwood, the suffering that takes its time - forces us philosophers to descend into our nethermost depths, and to let go of all trustfulness, all good-nature, all whittling-down, all mildness, all mediocrity, - on which things we had formerly staked our humanity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me. ~ Jonny Greenwood

I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English. ~ Kerry Greenwood

Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill. ~ Kerry Greenwood

That night I first saw you, I was going too fast. There I was rubbernecking at you and dumped the bike. Wrecked me up. I don't want to wreck us up like that. I don't want you to get hurt." She ~ Bryn Greenwood

From Alpha Centauri, we were twin stars, side by side. ~ Bryn Greenwood

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful. ~ Jonny Greenwood

When loud by landside streamlets gush,
And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,
With sun on the meadows
And songs in the shadows
Comes again to me
The gift of the tongues of the lea,
The gift of the tongues of meadows.
So when the earth is alive with gods,
And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod,
And the grass sings in the meadows,
And the flowers smile in the shadows,
Sits my heart at ease,
Hearing the song of the leas,
Singing the songs of the meadows. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!' ... That makes me think the format has probably had its day. ~ Jonny Greenwood

Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the sweet bird's throat;
Come hither, come hither, come hither.
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather. ~ William Shakespeare

You can look up keening in the dictionary, but you don't know what it means until you hear somebody having their heart ripped out. ~ Bryn Greenwood

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away. ~ Lee Greenwood

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy. ~ Jonny Greenwood

Girl that age ought not to have so many troubles, but she did. Looking at it that way, them two was about made for each other. ~ Bryn Greenwood

Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about. ~ Ron Greenwood

I'm not sure what's left of privacy right now, but whatever is left, I want to keep it for a while. ~ Bowen Greenwood

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall. ~ Bruce Greenwood

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence. ~ Ed Greenwood

Nothing belongs to you. It didn't matter that Grandma gave the cookbook to me. All Mama had to do was hold it in her hands and it was hers. ~ Bryn Greenwood

I wanted a fairy tale ending for Wavy, because if she could find happiness, there would be hope for me, too. ~ Bryn Greenwood

I don't think the process of writing books is in any way sensible. It's not logical, and it's not reasonable. I do write very fast, and I just do it in a binge. Other people binge-drink; I binge-write. ~ Kerry Greenwood

But it seemed I had fallen for a human - and not just any human, the worst possible human out of all seven billion possibilities. ~ Anne Greenwood Brown

The secret to happiness is counting your blessings while others are adding up their troubles. ~ T. Greenwood

Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made. ~ Kerry Greenwood

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times. ~ Lee Greenwood

The shop was sparkling with ~ Patrice Greenwood

Don't be silly, Phryne, I'm an - ' 'Invert?' said Phryne. 'Of course you are.' She said this as though he had just claimed to have blue eyes, as something utterly ordinary. 'And that means,' John persisted, 'that I am a sinner.' 'Rubbish,' said Phryne sharply. 'No one can help whom they love. I am positive that your God doesn't care a fig. ~ Kerry Greenwood

Unanswered questions make my head itch. ~ Kerry Greenwood

I really enjoyed hearing the likesand dislikesof my readers at book clubs as well as meeting new fans at the book signing at The Bookworm in Omaha " he said. "The book clubs have overwhelmingly asked me to hurry up on writing the sequel. ~ J. Alexander Greenwood

Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother. ~ Colin Greenwood

How sad was it that grief had a shelf life, he thought. It's only fresh and raw for so long before it begins to spoil. And soon enough, it would be replaced by a newer, brighter heartache - the old one discarded and eventually forgotten. ~ T. Greenwood

You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar. ~ Colin Greenwood

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator. ~ Colin Greenwood

The first Goddess, Gaia, who was the earth, wide hipped, big bellied, the womb of the human race, the nurturing breast of all humans, the opulent and voracious beginning of all things female. ~ Kerry Greenwood

There is no land like England,
Where'er the light of day be;
There are no hearts like English hearts,
Such hearts of oak as they be;
There is no land like England,
Where'er the light of day be:
There are no men like Englishmen,
So tall and bold as they be!
And these will strike for England,
And man and maid be free
To foil and spoil the tyrant
Beneath the greenwood tree. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

This is what 'forever' means, my dear. You don't walk into danger on your own. Not anymore. ~ Kerry Greenwood

I believe in absolutely nothing except yeast and the inevitability of politicians. ~ Kerry Greenwood

When I saw the Penderecki concert in London, in '92 or '93, I thought there were speakers in the room. It was just strings. But I could hear these kind of buzzings and rumblings, and I was like, 'Where is this all coming from?' And that was just better, to my ears. Odder, stranger, more magical. ~ Jonny Greenwood

Most days I was impossible. Like a unicorn. ~ Bryn Greenwood

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read. ~ Kerry Greenwood

When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems. ~ Bruce Greenwood

I love you, Wavy. I love you." I said it until she relaxed. "Now put your ring back on. ~ Bryn Greenwood

I looked at the things people think they own. I didn't take things very often, but I liked to move them. Car keys, purses, glasses, one shoe out of a pair. The ~ Bryn Greenwood

Hope is really just desire disguised, just desperation, aching, dressed up like a prayer. ~ T. Greenwood

Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot. ~ Colin Greenwood

I'm pretty much an open book. ~ Lee Greenwood

Sometimes things need to get broken ~ T. Greenwood

Mind you do your dying right! Most of us only get one chance at it. ~ Ed Greenwood

Time does not heal wounds. It's a body's ritual that does. The instinctual cleansing with rain or other waters, the application of salves. Despite the sting. Even neglected, the body begins to take care. To repair itself. Blood clots, tissues regenerate, flesh scars. Soon, the thin white line is the only evidence of the pain. It is the body, not time. Time does nothing except create distance between the body and that which caused it harm.
Recollection of fear can be stronger than the original fear itself. Similarly, bliss is sometimes more vivid when recollected. How else do you explain longing? Longing for what has already passed. That's the real pain.
But you insisted, you pried with your fingers to see. You retuned to me after I turned away. You made me recollect for you, collect again and again for you, inturrupting the healing with your curiosity.
Now that I have given you the words, you may long for them. You may miss me. YOu may try to find the notes to the song again and again and won't be able to find them. Perhaps, the wounds I made will already have begun to scar. Maybe the body will have begun its ritual of forgetting.
I told you not to ask for haunted, not to ask me to recollect. Because recollection is like tearing at closed wounds. Like pealing back the careful tissue put there by the body to make it safe. And because remembered pain is always worse than the original pain, because this time it is expected. This time you already know how ~ T. Greenwood

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world. ~ Jonny Greenwood

Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales. ~ Ron Greenwood

I wasn't naive enough to believe in love at first sight, but having woken me from my sleep there was a bond with Philip, a bond that made me feel safe, secure and more than anything left me wanting to have fallen in love at first sight. ~ Laura Greenwood

We improv-ed scenes that didn't happen in the movie. We improv-ed the scenes that are written in the movie without the dialogue as written. We played around a lot to try and figure out just how we could flow with what was already written in the story and how we could highlight those imbalances and those points at which we came to loggerheads. ~ Bruce Greenwood

I think everyone in the stadium went home happy, except all those people in Rumania ~ Ron Greenwood

It didn't matter where they went, the stars followed. A map of the universe spread out before them. ~ T. Greenwood

I think love courses through all of us, and we can express it to one person all the time, or we can express it to everybody in our world, in our immediate world, in our extended family and all that and to strangers. I think as a concept. I don't mean you and me later. ~ Bruce Greenwood

Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day. ~ Jonny Greenwood

Lily walked up the beach, looking over her shoulder at me again, probably afraid I was going to swim off and leave her. For a second I considered it. It wasn't a terrible idea. She'd be out of the way. Maris wouldn't be looking for her here. In a couple months, there'd be plenty of wild blackberries to eat . . . that was about when idea fizzled. ~ Anne Greenwood Brown

Bridget's voice floated out from the kitchen. Cold blows the wind tonight, sweetheart, Cold are the drops of rain; The very first love that ever I had In greenwood he was slain. I'll do as much for my sweetheart As any young woman may; I'll sit and mourn at his graveside A twelve-month and a day. ~ Cassandra Clare

I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful. ~ Kerry Greenwood

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor. ~ Kerry Greenwood

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight. ~ Jonny Greenwood

And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said - and she had the Sight - "Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living!" And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels - or devils. ~ Kerry Greenwood

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really. ~ Jonny Greenwood

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. ~ Colin Greenwood

Phryne was feeling most displeased with a species to which, she reminded herself, she belonged. ~ Kerry Greenwood

It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen. ~ Jonny Greenwood

I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics. ~ Jonny Greenwood

Now we will all die. What a pity. I haven't done half the wicked things I wanted to do, and the ones I have done I haven't done anything like enough. ~ Kerry Greenwood

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things. ~ Colin Greenwood

It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it. ~ Colin Greenwood

Both had suggestive bulges in their pockets which told of either huge genitalia or trousered pistols. ~ Kerry Greenwood

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead. ~ Jonny Greenwood

Tinker wrote neatly, though his spelling was not good, Ruth's recipes would never fail for confusion between 'add sugar' and 'seethe', but Jane's writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn't need. ~ Kerry Greenwood

Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't. ~ Kerry Greenwood

Under the greenwood tree, who something something me", tum-te-tum the weather,' Tom remarked. 'Shocking memory for poetry. ~ Jude Morgan

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered. ~ Lee Greenwood

I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it. ~ Kerry Greenwood

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot! ~ Ed Greenwood

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before. ~ Colin Greenwood

In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time. ~ Kerry Greenwood

She indulged in silent feelings of satisfaction, pleased with the idea of him suffering. This might even be a bit fun. ~ Emily Greenwood