Jeff Raikes Quotes

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

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• I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Play

• I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Like

• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Going
  • Alien
  • Hospital

• I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • You

• We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Up
  • Real
  • Dream

• I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Politics
  • Issues
  • Involved

• When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • Change
  • Start

• I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • People
  • Past
  • Learning

• I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Book

• I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Want
  • Sexy

• We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • High
  • Best
  • Need

• As soon as there is life there is danger.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Danger
  • Soon

• I became famous almost before I had a craft.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Famous
  • Almost
  • Craft

• The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Architecture
  • Logic

• I have no kicks at all The fact is I'm pretty happy about the whole thing...I enjoy this country. I like the parks and the highways and the good schools and everything that this Government does.

  

  Carole Lombard
  • Good
  • Country
  • Happy

• Like when Jay Leno made jokes about Koreans eating dog, but the hidden messages, our invisibility, is more harmful to us than any of those fools on 'board'.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Dog

• Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Good
  • Business

• Money has stepped to the forefront of everything.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Money

• I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

  

  Amar Bose
  • Music

• I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

  

  John Kruk
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Athlete

• In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

  

  Jeff Raikes