Kirk Kerkorian Quotes

I have some eye problems from when I was a pilot.

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• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Best
  • Never
  • Afraid

• When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Time
  • God
  • Art

• I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Me
  • Painting

• Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Country
  • Business
  • History

• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Man
  • You
  • Battle

• Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • City
  • Trump
  • Just

• The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Process
  • Watch

• I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • World
  • Research
  • Finance

• I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Back

• Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • House
  • Lost
  • Thought

• It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Poverty
  • Look
  • Irish

• Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Girl
  • Question

• The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me-and to me it seems chash, meaning correct-that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.

  

  Tad Williams
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Waiting

• Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be A

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Time

• I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

  

  Larry Wall

• To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

  

  William Blake
  • Joy
  • Limbs
  • Valleys

• Coming here makes all of us 13 or 14 years old again. It brings back all those memories.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Memories
  • Brings back

• I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

  

  Sarah Sutton
  • Photography
  • Camera
  • Boyfriend

• Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Relation
  • Heroism
  • Great Men

• I have some eye problems from when I was a pilot.

  

  Kirk Kerkorian