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

• 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

• 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

• Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Jealousy

• There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

  

  Louis Stokes
  • King
  • Anonymous

• Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Helping
  • Born

• Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Truth
  • River
  • Escape

• There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

  

  Christian Louboutin

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

  

  Mel Gibson