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

• 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

• When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Learn

• So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as you go. Want to add a dragon? Add a dragon! Want some magic? Throw it in. But the thing is, regardless of whether you're dealing with realism or fantasy, every world has rules. Make sure to establish a natural order.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Black
  • Day

• Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Change
  • Shadows

• I really want to see normalization of queer sexuality - as well as the lack of sexuality.

  

  Noelle Stevenson
  • Sexuality
  • Lack
  • Normalization

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

  

  Don Rickles