Bob Corker Quotes

I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

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• I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Good
  • Interested
  • Islam

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Model
  • Famous

• We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Learn
  • Model

• The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Want
  • Competition

• I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Gay

• The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • Glamour
  • Forbidden

• People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Different
  • Opinions

• As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Want
  • Actor

• Our work is never over.

  

  Kanye West
  • Work
  • Never
  • Over

• Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Beautiful
  • Architecture

• Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal – or have stolen for you - what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Work
  • Political

• There is no denying the fact, that in all sudden emergencies a woman has ten times the presence of mind, or, to use the common expression, her wits more about her than a man.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Mind

• The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the Night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• 117: It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and, learning to be self-critical?

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Education

• Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Lost

• And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

  

  Claude McKay

• When you have little children, you want to tell them about joy and happiness and hope. And then comes the time you want to tell them there are tough moments. I admire people who can do that.

  

  Peter Sis
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Fire
  • Professional
  • Romantic

• And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Always
  • Better
  • Luck

• We Jamaicans are not so much stressed about time, you know, but you have to stay on top of it. And, of course, on the track, every time we go on the track, it is all about the seconds and the fractions of a second that count.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Time
  • Track
  • Goes On

• I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

  

  Bob Corker