Emmett Kelly Quotes

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

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• I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Years
  • Win
  • Three

• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Time
  • Done
  • Thought

• When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Games
  • Nobody

• I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Hard Work

• You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Running
  • Say

• Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Always
  • Fan
  • Been

• Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Face

• I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Today
  • Parents

• I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Like
  • Making
  • Cinema

• I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • School
  • Money
  • End

• You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • America
  • History

• I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Professional

• It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Always
  • Natural
  • Expect

• First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • World
  • Words
  • Space

• Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...

  

  Larry Wall

• So the whole 'We have a list and we're not telling you' should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'?

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Children
  • She
  • Age

• Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

  

  Franz Schubert
  • Angry

• It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • God
  • Why

• What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Energy

• In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Powerful

• If you love something, give it away...

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Giving

• Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

  

  Emmett Kelly