Mel Gibson (Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson) Quotes

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

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• If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Want

• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Fun
  • Funny

• Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Engineer
  • Problem solving

• At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Family
  • Love
  • Hate

• India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Trade
  • India
  • Excess

• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Leadership
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Country
  • Feel
  • Human

• The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Tree

• The king himself has followed herWhen she has walk'd before.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • She
  • King

• The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum: Those who know do not say; Those who say do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, 'Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?' All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, 'put it into words.' All of them were silent.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Words
  • Rose

• Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

  

  Alan Ayckbourn
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Suffering

• I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Society

• I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me is it took away my ability to sing with a range because it paralyzed my vocal chords, so that was when I started playing. But I hear the music as if I were singing even when I am playing.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music
  • Singing

• Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Society

• I was raised on jazz. My father, from the time I was born, used to get up early on Saturdays and Sundays and put on Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Kenny Burrell, Sarah Vaughn, John Coltrane - all these great, classic albums.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I think there's a part when you sign your soul to the devil and start working in Los Angeles that you also sign away that you could be a human being in anyone's eye. You're like a robot!

  

  Amber Heard
  • Soul
  • Devil

• We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Time
  • War
  • Law

• I've always been more in control of my professional life than my personal life. Although I'm a strong woman, when I fall in love I just give myself 100 percent. I become secondary.

  

  Maria Conchita Alonso
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Control

• I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Losing
  • Changing
  • Refuse

• I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Day
  • Gym
  • Three

• When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Football
  • Professional

• At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance.

  

  Karl Mannheim
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Vision

• It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

  

  Mel Gibson