Bob Ross Quotes

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• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Past
  • Democracy
  • Mistakes

• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Audience

• I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • You
  • Run

• One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Song

• Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Short

• You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Team
  • Games

• We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Work
  • Air

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Trying
  • You
  • Thousand

• I'm easy to hate. I get it.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Hate
  • Easy
  • Get

• As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Book
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Simple

• I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Important
  • Children
  • Remember

• For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Never
  • Air
  • Enough

• 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

• I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.

  

  Martha Wainwright
  • People
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Love
  • Done
  • Small

• We're all in the service business. If you hire me to do a job I expect everybody else to be where I am. A little bit of crazy is good. It keeps things - balanced.

  

  Nia Long
  • Good
  • Business
  • Job

• Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Fun
  • Stuff

• Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.

  

  Bob Ross
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