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

• As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Think

• 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

• Sir; You are directed to have a transport.. sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Desire

• And darest thou thenTo beard the lion in his den,The Douglas in his hall?

  

  Walter Scott
  • Lion

• 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

• What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Money

• 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

• The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• 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

• There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Person
  • Influence

• So many people have pumpkins, you can go to every grocery store in the county, some gas stations, farmer's market, some doughnut shops, you name it, ... Last year he had a lot, thousands of pumpkins, but this year he just planted a couple of acres. They just weren't a big deal.

  

  Aaron Lewis Staind
  • Big Deal
  • Acres
  • Pumpkins

• Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • Career
  • Wish
  • Proud

• I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Sadness

• By calling him humourless I mean to impugn his seriousness, categorically: such a man must rig up his probity ex nihilo.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Up

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

  

  Mel Gibson