Larry Speakes Quotes

Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.

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• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Earth
  • Face
  • Furniture

• I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Beautiful
  • Management
  • Anger

• Die nächste Flut verwischt den Weg im Watt, und alles wird auf allen Seiten gleich; die kleine Insel draußen aber hat die Augen zu; verwirrend kreist der Deichum ihre Wohner, die in einem Schlaf geboren werden, drin sie viele Welten verwechseln schweigend, denn sie reden selten, und jeder Satz ist wie ein Epitaph

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Die

• We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Learning
  • Search

• 3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Nature

• When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Life
  • Live
  • Control

• I would be delighted not to see another celebrity, regardless of their political beliefs, come to Washington to make yet another appeal for some cause about which they know little.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Political
  • Celebrity

• I always want fighting spirit first.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Fighting

• That's one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.

  

  Jake Arrieta

• I never really watched much stand-up growing up. I just was not really that into it. But I can say I honestly fell in love with it the second I touched the microphone. It was like this weird thing where it's like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what I'm supposed to do.'

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Weird

• If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

  

  Drew Houston

• I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Simplicity

• When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up loving and who you wanted to be, you can't say no. Even if it's the most terrifying thing someone asks you to do.

  

  Amanda Fuller
  • Up

• If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Wise
  • Devil

• Make a list of all the people in your life, and rate them in terms of energy in, energy out. Is there anyone in your life right now who is blocking your love quest?

  

  Joanna Coles
  • People
  • Life
  • Energy

• The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fashion
  • Commerce
  • Services

• I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Imagine
  • Victim
  • Monopolies

• Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Love
  • Home
  • Imagination

• There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Clothes
  • Shoot

• Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?'

  

  Abu Abbas
  • Man
  • Fault
  • Shoot

• Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Shoot
  • Lip