Top 111 Shed Quotes

When I first left Florida for Boston, I was so eager to shed my Floridian identity, perhaps some of my earlier surreal gestures felt hollow and unconvincing because they were not rising from the particular brand of the uncanny I knew best.

I did have a literal shed of fan mail once. It was literally filled with, like, 25 of those giant mail cartons.

There’s no better exercise than dancing. ‘Dancing with the Stars’ is amazing. I used to take it for granted, but the three months you spend on the show, with that grueling regimen, you just shed weight. You can eat anything you want and it doesn’t stick.

As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don’t get in people’s way.

Nurturing and spending time and effort on what’s happening underneath our exteriors is much more lucrative than spending a lifetime and shed load of money on your outside.

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents’ farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

I mean, I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, I’m like a continuation school dropout, but I’m trying.

I’m not going to please everyone; not everyone’s going to like me. I accepted that a long time ago, and if I had to shed a tear every time I got a hate email, believe me, I’d be severely dehydrated.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

We looked back on what we used to eat and thought, ‘That’s not cool.’ We had to move with the times and that meant we had to shed weight and not get sick.

2Pac the only artist that ever made me shed a tear.

If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.

I’ve had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed – I think over a period of time, you’ll shed what doesn’t stick with you, and you’ll hang onto those things that do.

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ has helped me shed my inhibitions. Dancing in front of an audience was not easy for me. But I managed it and got progressively comfortable with the audience as the weeks progressed.

I definitely carry a little bit of a burden with me, being a gay athlete going to the Olympics. I think that there’s pressure on me… It presents an amazing opportunity, and I think that it kind of gives us a chance to shed people’s misconceptions and just kind of, like, break down barriers.

Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.

I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being futuristic and innovative since instruments were plugged into a wall. With computers, machines, and music, black people have been contributing to that a great deal for a long time.

I’m never happy with what I’ve written. You imagine, before you start, there’s a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it’s a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in 1999. Our elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011 were complicated and fraught with tension, but each one has shown remarkable progress.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

I realized that if I could shed some extra weight, it would make a huge difference for my knee.

If I was painting or writing, I wouldn’t veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.

Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ’s body was given, and his blood shed for us.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

I’ve sold my Mercedes and I’ll be getting something electric. I work out of a thatch shed on the roof.

When critics called me a duplicate of my father, I knew I can’t do anything about my genes but I ensured that I shed the romantic image and create my individual style.

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we’d go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.

I’m probably not going to shed all the pageant girl, because that’s who I am. If you don’t like it, that’s too damn bad.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my ‘museum’. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that’s when we’ll have equal power.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers – nor friends, either.

I don’t like ads: I’m too susceptible. I find myself in the supermarket buying Ronseal, and I don’t even have a shed.

They’re not willing to admit that I’ve also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

I recorded ‘Play God’ in a shed. I don’t know how we got it to sound as good as it did.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as for the light they shed on the way these great scientists worked. But are ‘routine’ scientists as fascinating as their science? Here I have my doubts.

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it’s something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I’ve been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.

I’m an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

I like to make people feel more comfortable, and it’s great to have this platform and be able to shed light on adoption and how it’s a beautiful thing, instead of being tiptoed around.

When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to ‘vote as you shot’ kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat – Grover Cleveland – won the White House.

I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches – like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat – and I give them a more incandescent future.

In each medium – popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively – the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began.

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

With my work, I always want to people to just forget about anything stressful going on in their lives and be fully entertained. Laughter is key. If they shed a tear or go home thinking about the play, that’s a bonus.