John D. Voelker Quotes

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed.

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• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Long
  • Personality
  • Pet

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • History
  • Today
  • Success

• They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Time
  • Service
  • Chance

• Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.

  

  Yuna
  • Cool
  • Like
  • Him

• The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Serious

• I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Understanding

• During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Men
  • Community
  • Service

• Nothing, literally nothing, makes me feel like I'm back to my body more than Pilates.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Body

• In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

  Gail Devers
  • Broken
  • Feet
  • February

• Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Power
  • Man
  • Slavery

• Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • World
  • Future
  • Risk

• Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

  

  Origen
  • Know
  • Justice
  • Place

• I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Right

• A part-time working woman makes $1.10 for every dollar made by her male counterpart.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time

• It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Law

• There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Done

• In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Water
  • Tree
  • Rain

• We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Cute

• We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Band
  • Present
  • Emotional

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• It was never a plan to be an actor.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Never
  • Actor
  • Plan

• Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed.

  

  John D. Voelker
  • Fun
  • Fishing