John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

John Wayne

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• I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Years
  • Old

• Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • God
  • May
  • Black

• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Leave

• I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Want
  • Never
  • Rich

• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  

  Vanna White
  • Home
  • Mistake
  • Television

• I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Pain
  • Hurts

• If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • True
  • Dream
  • You

• I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Age
  • Violence

• I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Life
  • Long
  • Conclusion

• Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Up
  • Age
  • End

• I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Work
  • Different
  • Love

• I been readin' 'bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains. On the other hand, maybe we got the most brains...maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced. Either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Hand
  • Universe

• 'Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Good
  • Bad

• Men often become nonviolent in societies that (1) have adequate amounts of food, (2) have adequate amounts of water, and (3) perceive themselves as isolated from attack. For example, the Tahitian men, the Minoan men on Crete, and the Central Malaysian Semai were nonviolent during the period in their history when all three of these conditions prevailed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • History
  • Food

• Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee!We think no Birds so happy as we!Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill!We think so then, and we thought so still!

  

  Edward Lear
  • Happy

• The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

  

  James Daly
  • Children
  • Family
  • Business

• I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Rest

• I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.

  

  Breckin Meyer
  • Girl
  • Friend
  • Kissing

• Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

  

  John Wayne