Gene Simmons Quotes

I'm drawn to dramas that make people think. I want to make an impact.

When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.

The finger lick is just a really bad habit - I do it all the time. My wife Ashley is going to kill me if I do it at dinner one more time. I look like an animal about to dig in.

Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

I would say about 90 per cent of drunken idiots in comedy clubs wear ties, particularly in London where I work most of the time.

Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.

I've impacted peoples' lives in such a way that they'll never forget.

When I first met Clint Eastwood, I bobbed him a curtsy. I still cringe about that to this day.

Unfortunately, there tends to be an easy way of doing things in life and the Haskell way. As a 12-year-old I knocked my front teeth out while chasing a friend in the rain. I'm the type who offers to serve wine at drinks parties and accidentally pours it down one of the guests.

Enjoy it. Because it's happening.

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms, her body crushing momentarily against his.

There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.

There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.

So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I said, “Good evening Yaleites” or “Yalers”, or whatever you guys are called, and got stuck at Yaaaaa…. That wouldn’t make for much of a speech.

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.