Top 320 Quotes & Sayings by Thom Yorke - Page 5

I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!

You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...

Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic bit of poetry.

In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape Broken branches Trip me as I speak Just 'cause you feel it Doesn't mean it's there... We are accidents waiting Waiting to happen.

The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.

I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome

It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.

The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.

It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.

I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.

Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.

I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe.

I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots

you have not been / paying attention

I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.

Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.

I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and biscuits and reminisce with the cheshire cat who lives in my head. Oh hello Mr. Cheshire, lovely weather this morning. Mr. Cheshire? Oh my god.

The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.

The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?

If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive

Every move you make has already been done, and taken the piss out of.

Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.

Up above Aliens hover Making home movies For the folks back home Of all these weird creatures Who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves And live for their secrets.

She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run.

In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe. In a deep deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again. In a fast German car, I'm amazed that I survived, An airbag saved my life...

As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece

Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall

It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.

Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner).

I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.

Everyone has got the fear It's holding on It's holding on.

Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I'll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April's showers And two and two always makes a five It's the devil's way now There is no way out You can SCREAM and you can shout It is too late now Because... You have not been Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! You have not been paying attention!

How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?

If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.

Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner.

You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.

They love me like I was a brother They protect me, listen to me They dug me my very own garden Gave me sunshine, made me happy Nice dream, nice dream Nice dream

What the hell am I doing here?

i'M nOT thOM yorkE but a. ROBOT.

You'll go to Hell For what your Dirty mind is thinking.

My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source

Don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen.

The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks

If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!

And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green.

Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet.

It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!

Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.

It's the Devil's way now, There is no way out, You can scream and you can shout, It is too late now.

At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*