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

• Being involved with show business gave me a lot of experience in dealing with stress, which, in a way, prepared me for my career as a medic.

  

  Bobby Sherman
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Show

• The problem with being an actor is that you have to be reactive to what other people want.

  

  Marisa Coughlan
  • People

• We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

  

  Newton N. Minow
  • Imagination
  • Creativity
  • Excellence

• Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king.' Nonsense. Some consider me as a demon or a wolf in Buddhist robes. That also, I think nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.

  

  William P. Young
  • God
  • Judge
  • Relationships

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

  

  Don Rickles