Don Rickles Quotes

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.

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• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Quiet

• There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Acting

• I've never liked rehearsing too much.

  

  J Mascis
  • Never
  • Too Much
  • Too

• I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • Life
  • Matter
  • My Life

• All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Work
  • You
  • Jump

• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • You
  • Hands
  • Fate

• Square meals often make round people.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Round
  • Square

• We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Depend

• Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Never
  • Guilty

• I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Blue
  • Valley

• A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Growth
  • Search
  • Stock

• I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Challenge

• I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Home
  • Fire
  • Gun

• A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Inside
  • Key
  • Box

• A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Nothing
  • Meeting

• I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was the WB. My age was perfect for it, but I just never came across as a youngster. I had to grow into my age in order to start working, and by the time I did, it was when things started to get good.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Tobey Maguire and I had a tough relationship - it was a tough working relationship. We butted heads, and ultimately, I lost the Los Angeles game because of differences with him. But then I moved to New York and built a bigger game, five times bigger, making more money, and that was pretty exciting.

  

  Molly Bloom
  • Working
  • Differences
  • Because

• People think it's lame to be young, but it's not. And you only get to be young for so long.

  

  AJ Michalka
  • Long
  • Young
  • Get

• I've been told there's a special golden shelf, in the secret vault kept at the back of every bookstore in America, that contains the Bible, 'War and Peace,' and 'Driving Mr. Albert.'

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • America
  • Driving
  • Special

• The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.

  

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.

  

  Don Rickles