Dick Van Patten Quotes

I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.

Dick Van Patten

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• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Like
  • Sports
  • Dirty

• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Proud
  • Fans

• Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.

  

  Karl Landsteiner
  • Long
  • High
  • Constitution

• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Theatre
  • Transformation

• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • True
  • Problem
  • Improvement

• If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • Would
  • Wearing

• I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Children
  • Want
  • Know

• To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Thought
  • Modern
  • Principles

• I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Decision
  • New York

• The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Write
  • Before

• When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Look
  • Just
  • Pie

• For my body, I like high-waisted jeans because they make your leg look longer and hides this extra thing on my stomach. You can eat extra food with it because it hides, and I like to tuck in my t-shirts.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • High
  • Food
  • Body

• I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Love
  • Happy

• I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.

  

  K. Flay
  • Water
  • Crazy
  • Personality

• Midnight on the water I saw the ocean's daughter Walking on a wave's chicane Staring as she called my name And I can't get it out of my head No, I can't get it out of my head Now my old world is gone for dead 'Cos I can't get it out of my head

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • World
  • She
  • Water

• If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

  

  Ellen Malcolm
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Beer

• The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Internet
  • Access

• Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Man
  • Animals

• I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

  

  Joe Lhota

• I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.

  

  Dick Van Patten