Gene Simmons Quotes - Page 3

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there but they don't have a chance because once upon a time we [musicians of the 60s] had record companies, and they would support you and have point of purchase material and they would give you advances. In other words, they gave you the air to breathe to find yourself and spend the time to learn how to run.

After 9/11, people all of a sudden became patriotic and showed the colors. Why did it take something bad to happen? It means something. People have died for it, and continue to do so.

No one has the right to shake his finger in your face.

Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.

You can't rely on anything. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself.

I voted for President Bush. I voted for President Clinton and although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity.

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.