Billy Sunday Quotes

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

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• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Like

• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • History
  • Painting

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Funny
  • Best

• I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • Fall
  • See

• It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Strive

• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Free
  • English

• I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • World
  • Kids
  • Hope

• The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Song
  • Start

• Heroes can be sweet.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Sweet
  • Heroes

• Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Why
  • Fall
  • Stand

• It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • You
  • Down
  • Reach

• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hate

• I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Perfect
  • Being
  • Very

• The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Better

• What's love without a soundtrack, you know?

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid

• I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Stop
  • Drinking

• You can't worry about ageing because that's the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don't like, and then you're finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.

  

  China Machado
  • Done
  • Stop
  • Worry

• My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• On one hand, I can say, you know, I had many family members - I had many people in my extended family who left right after Katrina, who relocated to different cities, right? Houston, Atlanta. Right? Most of them have come back.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

  

  Billy Sunday
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