James Whitcomb Riley Quotes

An’ the Gobble-uns ’ll git you Ef you don’t watch out.

James Whitcomb Riley

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• There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Internet

• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Think
  • Need
  • Security

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Yourself
  • Choice
  • Choose

• At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Friends
  • Guy

• I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Power
  • Enjoy
  • Shows

• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Parents
  • Learn
  • Grades

• The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Country
  • Wonderful
  • Royalty

• I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Up
  • Work
  • Heart

• The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Power
  • Death

• I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'

  

  Kate Bush
  • Why
  • She
  • Think

• The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • High
  • Quality

• I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.

  

  Gary Speed
  • City
  • Fans
  • Playing

• Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Enemy
  • Racism

• California always struck me as a police state.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Police
  • California

• I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Rising

• Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Like

• An’ the Gobble-uns ’ll git you Ef you don’t watch out.

  

  James Whitcomb Riley