Ian Gillan Quotes

When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

It was set to be my first WrestleMania, which is obviously a lifetime goal. To have that taken away from me right on the approach - we were something like three weeks out - was devastating. It certainly changed me as a person, that process.

I got a third-degree ankle sprain practicing long jump. I never fully recovered. That was my first heartbreak. I thought track was going to be something that was going to happen in my life. It never went in the direction I wanted it to, no matter how hard I tried.

It gets frustrating when you play basketball for your whole life and then it gets taken from you for a little bit.

People are always ruining things for you.

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

I guess you need days off, but I just didn't want them.

I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

Gabe scratched his double chin. "Maybe if you hurry with the seven-layer dip...And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting my poker game." Maybe if I kick you in your soft spot, I thought. And make you sing Soprano for a week.

Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare children an I dinna like to flog men, and I've had to do both. I've two hundred English camped three miles away, and no idea what to do about them. I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm sore. If you've anything like womanly sympathy about ye, I could use a bit!

Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

I was disappointed over my dismissal, given that it was at a crucial stage of the game and I had worked very hard to get to that point,.

He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.

You have to do disappointment twice.

How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different?

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

"Failure" isn't a word I really use.

What I created got abominated.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.