Don Rickles Quotes

Honestly, I didn't realize it - all of a sudden, I was 90. The years skipped by quickly. When it happened, I said, 'Where did the time go?'

Don Rickles

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• Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Resolve
  • Our
  • Collective

• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Time
  • Live
  • Women

• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Think
  • Future
  • Twitter

• You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Right
  • Places
  • Hug Me

• You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • May
  • Past

• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Interested

• I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Everything

• If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • You
  • Person
  • Confident

• I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Home
  • Moments

• Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • College
  • Always
  • Acting

• Getting to be the 'weird roommate' on a sitcom was a dream come true.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • True
  • Dream
  • Weird

• ...all battles had to be fought one step at a time. No point in worrying about the future if there was to be no future, so he and and Harper worked patiently away.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Time
  • Future

• When I first set up my big band, I only had Gilson Lavis, the drummer from Squeeze, with me. He was the core element. Whenever a group hits the big time, they always get a new drummer because they really need that. You can make do with rubbish elsewhere.

  

  Jools Holland
  • Up
  • Time
  • Band

• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  

  George Eliot
  • Beginning
  • Marriage
  • Memories

• Honestly, I didn't realize it - all of a sudden, I was 90. The years skipped by quickly. When it happened, I said, 'Where did the time go?'

  

  Don Rickles
  • Time