Fred Rogers Quotes
Fame is a four letter word and like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or life, or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
Quotes to Explore
-
What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
-
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
-
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
-
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
-
My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
-
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
-
Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
-
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
-
'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
-
I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
-
Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
-
'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
-
I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
-
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
-
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
-
It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
-
I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
-
‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’
-
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
-
I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.
-
Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.
-
I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.
-
Fame is a four letter word and like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or life, or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
