Geoff Downes Quote

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording...
GEOFF DOWNES

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
DONALD DOWNES

The audience went kind of wild when Bo came out on crutches, with an air cast up to his knee, ... I ...
NANCY DOWNES

He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He ...
PATRICK DOWNES

The 'Idol' bus picked him up at the hospital for a 10-hour drive to Cleveland, ... A doctor came bac...
NANCY DOWNES

We will continue to monitor the market on a daily basis and look for ways to offer savings in the fu...
LAURENCE M. DOWNES

Prices have come down because of the warm weather. As a result of that, we are able to pass the savi...
LAURENCE M. DOWNES

I absolutely love Aquaman, and the character has been a passion since 'Blackest Night.'
GEOFF JOHNS

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to soc...
GEOFF MULGAN

This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We ...
GEOFF DAVIS

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and vir...
GEOFF MULGAN

Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't ...
GEOFF DYER

One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remai...
GEOFF DYER

As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from ou...
GEOFF MULGAN

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sen...
GEOFF MULGAN

I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven a...
GEOFF HOON

It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.
GEOFF DYER

For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinem...
GEOFF DYER

The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.
GEOFF JOHNS

The holiday season can be an especially trying time for our service men, women, and families. Milita...
GEOFF STULTS

It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite...
GEOFF MULGAN

Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg are fantastic producers and showrunners, and the...
GEOFF JOHNS

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.
GEOFF DYER

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.
GEOFF MULGAN

Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But th...
GEOFF MULGAN

It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this ...
GEOFF DYER

Batman and the Flash have a whole lot in common behind the mask. They've both experienced loss, ...
GEOFF JOHNS

While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in - or, at the very least, reco...
GEOFF DYER

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plen...
GEOFF MULGAN

I did 'Good Morning America' with David Beckham. Oh, god, what a handsome devil that guy is.
GEOFF STULTS

Generally, I'm not anti the novel.
GEOFF DYER

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compe...
GEOFF JOHNS

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, da...
GEOFF MULGAN

Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or...
GEOFF MULGAN

The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the n...
GEOFF MULGAN

L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissis...
GEOFF MULGAN

The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly ...
GEOFF DYER

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone ha...
GEOFF MULGAN

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and ap...
GEOFF MULGAN

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent...
GEOFF HOON

I didn't want to take the DC universe, put it in a box, shake the box and pour it out. I wanted ...
GEOFF JOHNS

Deathstorm sees Power Ring as a fascinating experiment. Deathstorm is a scientist who's been mer...
GEOFF JOHNS

So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to m...
GEOFF MULGAN

Writers are not obliged to deal with current events, but it happens that the big story of our times ...
GEOFF DYER

I was just about to sweep it up. Then I saw something move and got a bit of a fright.
GEOFF BROWN

I think the drug probably returns to market, but it returns in handcuffs.
GEOFF PORGES

are recovering the bodies and attempting to ascertain the cause of the crash.
GEOFF HOON

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society ...
GEOFF MULGAN

There's a demand for car washing in North Vancouver that's undersupplied at this point, ... There's ...
GEOFF BAKER

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team...
GEOFF MULGAN

I need to maintain a home in Derbyshire and in London to be able both to represent my constituents a...
GEOFF HOON

Tenacity. We're great guys in the clubhouse, but when the game starts we turn into a bunch of angry ...
GEOFF BLUM

The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the str...
GEOFF DYER

I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be cl...
GEOFF DYER

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated th...
GEOFF MULGAN

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of ...
GEOFF JOHNS

We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of c...
GEOFF DYER

The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every...
GEOFF MULGAN

I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a s...
GEOFF STULTS

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.
GEOFF STULTS

I think it is very prudent to make sure your baggage is locked.
GEOFF DIXON

My sister was the inspiration for the character, the good qualities instilled in the character. The ...
GEOFF JOHNS

Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. T...
GEOFF MULGAN

By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However...
GEOFF MULGAN

The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be ex...
GEOFF MULGAN

Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, s...
GEOFF MULGAN

To assume that managing sockeye is like counting trees on a hillside is erroneous and based on a fai...
GEOFF REGAN

If you can't manage in the bathroom safely, you're not going to be able to live independently.
GEOFF FERNIE

I'm sure that at some point there's going to be talk about Rick being a lame duck. But there's nothi...
GEOFF PETRIE

There's somebody watching over me this week. I've played nicely, but I've dodged a few bullets.
GEOFF OGILVY

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are ...
GEOFF MULGAN

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.
GEOFF MULGAN

encouraging because it shows the Indians are showing a first step back from the brink.
GEOFF HOON

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.
GEOFF MULGAN

Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often...
GEOFF HOON

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people...
GEOFF MULGAN

The idea of introducing the Seven Seas is absolutely to challenge Aquaman on an emotional and person...
GEOFF JOHNS

I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoy...
GEOFF JOHNS

'Flashpoint' is a showcase to demonstrate why the Flash is a major character, just like how ...
GEOFF JOHNS

Clearly, Simon Baz brings such a different viewpoint to 'Green Lantern.' The very nature of ...
GEOFF JOHNS

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy,...
GEOFF JOHNS

I'm really proud of all the stuff we've built with Green Lantern - from Larfleeze to the dif...
GEOFF JOHNS

The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.
GEOFF JOHNS

The best player always gets followed, but especially Tiger because you know he thinks everything out...
GEOFF OGILVY

My Tarkovsky idolatry was at its peak, but 'Nostalghia' really didn't do anything for me...
GEOFF DYER

Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I'd warmly recommend it. It's supe...
GEOFF DYER

There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivabl...
GEOFF DYER

The entire distribution channel has been upset and that's manifesting itself in a wider-than-normal ...
GEOFF SUNDSTROM

People with Alzheimer's have a lot of trouble with hand-washing. They don't know to turn the tap on,...
GEOFF FERNIE

We're going to build easily the most sophisticated and exciting place (to do rehabilitation science)...
GEOFF FERNIE

For old people and people with disabilities, winter is an enormous problem. We know people who just ...
GEOFF FERNIE

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses t...
GEOFF JOHNS

It is hard for Jack not to believe that there is a laser bulls-eye on his forehead.
GEOFF SMITH

After careful evaluation, the chiefs of staff have advised me that UK forces are able to undertake t...
GEOFF HOON

In the process, we found we had a lot of common songwriting approaches and we seemed to collaborate ...
GEOFF PEMBLE

I think that hit a nerve with a lot of folks who felt that it was unfair.
GEOFF PADDOCK

I made some good putts and for the most part I played really well. I got lucky a couple times. But h...
GEOFF OGILVY

It's now come full circle.
GEOFF SHEERIN

There is a thematic continuity here within Bigelow's work: 'The Hurt Locker' serves up a...
GEOFF DYER

I don't want to be a lobbyist. I want to provide strategic advice to companies. I said both of t...
GEOFF HOON

Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.
GEOFF MULGAN

We do have that case up for review.
GEOFF LUEBKEMANN

We didn't want to sell the same disc for four years. What happened a few years ago is no longer rele...
GEOFF CLENDENNING

Sure some medical experts say coffee could be a health hazard, but they obviously never built a web ...
GEOFF BLAKE

I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, '...
GEOFF DYER

Players who performed strongly all last year but have been left out of such a big squad are entitled...
GEOFF TOOVEY

Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed ou...
GEOFF DAVIS

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance s...
GEOFF MULGAN

In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you ...
GEOFF DYER

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for...
GEOFF DYER

Once you've published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the e...
GEOFF DYER

We'll be pleasantly surprised by Japan, we'll be pleasantly surprised by European data, so in a glob...
GEOFF LEWIS

In the Teen Titans one year later we want to introduce like 20 mysteries and make them feel as fresh...
GEOFF JOHNS

I think he's going to be a fantastic new character.
GEOFF JOHNS

I started at DC with Stars & S.T.R.I.P.E. and I've never stopped having fun, ... I'm working with th...
GEOFF JOHNS

I started at DC with STARS & S.T.R.I.P.E. and I've never stopped having fun, ... I'm working with th...
GEOFF JOHNS

Hopefully this is the payoff of all the work everybodys been doing for where were taking the DC Univ...
GEOFF JOHNS

Were really trying to make Crisis as accessible as possible, which is extremely difficult to do beca...
GEOFF JOHNS

I'm just thrilled people are checking out POWER GIRL. She's one of the greatest heroines in the DCU ...
GEOFF JOHNS

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. I...
GEOFF MULGAN

The public must remain vigilant, we must continue to take care to deal with these kinds of appalling...
GEOFF HOON

the appalling regime here.
GEOFF HOON

Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequ...
GEOFF HOON

We have made clear all along that this bill is for discussion and debate,
GEOFF HOON

I actually think people out in the country are far more aware of the impact of the events of Septemb...
GEOFF HOON

This is simply a warning shot, if you like, across the bows of the Iraqi leadership.
GEOFF HOON

[This was probably the most complained-about feature of the broadcasts. The English broadcasters mad...
GEOFF BOYCOTT

There is a realization that no one can be complacent about supplies.
GEOFF PYNE

Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that 'lie too deep for tears', I think tears are...
GEOFF DYER

Dale was very impressive - he's close to the best skier out there on his turns and speed.
GEOFF LIPSHUT

We are looking forward to having a fresh new look for Rod Laver Arena and the Melbourne Park site fo...
GEOFF POLLARD

Well I've been through with it with my son, and it was horrifying.
GEOFF CRUMP

It's a window into an extremely bizarre world.
GEOFF DAVIS

It's mostly been a fun project. But I've also heard from Korea scholars and people at think tanks wh...
GEOFF DAVIS

We manage the two (land-based) casinos, the Gold Coast and the Treasury.
GEOFF DAVIS

The executive Committee should do what it feels is necessary to continue leading a strong, unified R...
GEOFF DAVIS

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.
GEOFF DAVIS

I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in a...
GEOFF DAVIS

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.
GEOFF DAVIS

Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal co...
GEOFF DAVIS

It is difficult to acknowledge that mistakes were made in the critical first few hours when the impa...
GEOFF DAVIS

I'm just happy to be a small part of a project that will provide housing and economic benefits to Bu...
GEOFF DAVIS

I think members on both sides of the aisle had a fairly uniform and businesslike response
GEOFF DAVIS

You could probably say that it is equivalent to a detective looking for a thief ....You look for clu...
GEOFF DAVIS

We jointly recognized the opportunity to make a significant impact in India, ... Not only was an all...
GEOFF DAVIS

You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut thr...
GEOFF DAVIS

Their propaganda is often unintentionally hilarious and I couldn't find an existing searchable datab...
GEOFF DAVIS

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with...
GEOFF DYER

Obviously analysis continues but I can say straight away that those pictures were not live.
GEOFF HOON

Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-mind...
GEOFF DYER

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
GEOFF MULGAN

In some respects, economics is purely a way of thinking, a form of religion if you will, a philosoph...
GEOFF BUMP

He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant h...
GEOFF DYER

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story t...
GEOFF RYMAN

There's a lot of hype around it now, but they've done their homework on the real estate industry.
GEOFF WOOD

The spread has reduced dramatically and trades are increasingly being given to New Zealand brokers t...
GEOFF BROWN

He's tactically very smart between his ears and he has been the most consistent seam bowler in Austr...
GEOFF LAWSON

There were a lot of photographs that depicted Kurt in a different light than we had ever seen him be...
GEOFF SMITH

Capacity constraints throughout the industry have become severe.
GEOFF KIEBURTZ

For a kid's album, that's astonishing.
GEOFF MAYFIELD

It could have gone further. They've made a step forward, but it's not a giant step. The question is ...
GEOFF BOBROFF

He established the largest empire ever seen on the continent of Africa. Egypt's 25th Dynasty, which ...
GEOFF EMBERLING

The deaths of these servicemen are especially poignant on a day when Iraqis were able to enjoy the f...
GEOFF HOON

I knew I was one behind before I hit my tee shot,
GEOFF OGILVY

It's irrelevant. He can drive it anywhere he wants. He does and he wins. As wayward as Stephen Ames ...
GEOFF OGILVY

The rise of Nubian civilization presents a story of rich resources, trade and conflict with Egypt, a...
GEOFF EMBERLING

Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension ...
GEOFF DYER

If you're not religious, like me, how do you explain the transformational power that certain pla...
GEOFF DYER

I think that if you are a resolute, unswerving atheist, you have that sense that you are conscious o...
GEOFF DYER

I think anybody can relate to the reluctance to have to lead sometimes.
GEOFF STULTS

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually ref...
GEOFF MULGAN

I love every character in the DC universe, except for Rampage. Rampage is a She-Hulk rip-off, and I ...
GEOFF JOHNS

We are likely to upgrade our 2006 numbers slightly as a result, and do not believe that the shares l...
GEOFF MILLER

There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to...
GEOFF MULGAN

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers an...
GEOFF MULGAN

I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body ...
GEOFF RYMAN

I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am ab...
GEOFF DYER

Something was on my side this week, keeping their putts out of the hole and making mine go in the ho...
GEOFF OGILVY

Inevitably, most readers come to John Cheever's 'Journals' via his fiction. Whatever val...
GEOFF DYER

When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I shoul...
GEOFF DYER

Is it a coincidence? We don't know. It's just hard to believe that it is.
GEOFF SMITH

I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things...
GEOFF STULTS

We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don&...
GEOFF DYER

Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made hi...
GEOFF DYER

The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tie...
GEOFF MULGAN

A restaurant on the moon could not have had less atmosphere.
GEOFF DYER

In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'...
GEOFF DYER

My favourite sites are all about web accessiblity, like Jakob Nielsen's site, but I'm afraid...
GEOFF RYMAN

Bags and Biggio. Anybody who stays with one team that long and puts that kind of investment into a c...
GEOFF BLUM

He is doing a tremendous job in very difficult conditions and he deserves and gets our complete supp...
GEOFF HOON

It is with great regret that I can confirm that nine Royal Air Force personnel and one soldier are m...
GEOFF HOON

According to the reports we have gathered, mostly from the refugees, it appears that around 10,000 p...
GEOFF HOON

In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of rout...
GEOFF HOON

It's important that we continue to work together... that we understand each other's political diffic...
GEOFF HOON

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too mu...
GEOFF MULGAN

The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get ...
GEOFF DAVIS

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You&...
GEOFF JOHNS

For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for...
GEOFF MULGAN

Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.

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Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.

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