143 Quotes by Bob Geldof

I can see you're going to be trouble, Claire.

The truth is I do have 14 sheep, down in Kent in my house there, and I'll actually ship them over now to Stephen's Green and you can all bugger off. That's where they are going to live,

The truth is, I do have 14 sheep, down in Kent in my house there, and I'll actually ship them over now to Stephen's Green and you can all bugger off. That's where they are going to live.

Feed the world. Let them know it’s Christmas time again.

Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he’s enamoured by it. I’m enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it’s very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know.

Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.