Erle Stanley Gardner Quotes

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

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• Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Films

• I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• We feel and know that we are eternal.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Eternal

• But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • You
  • Know
  • Realize

• I like to show that I'm real.

  

  Maluma
  • Real
  • Like
  • Show

• There is no forgiveness in nature.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Nature
  • Forgiveness

• As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Time
  • End
  • Process

• I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Mail
  • Viagra

• People actually really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Relationship
  • Cousins

• I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Culture

• I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Wish
  • Lie

• «And the European one?»

  

  Mariano Rajoy

• I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Control
  • Human
  • Determined

• I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

  

  Doc Rivers
  • History

• I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Time
  • Choices

• With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.

  

  James Patterson
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Business
  • Hair
  • Red

• We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People

• Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • May
  • Nice

• Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

  

  Erle Stanley Gardner
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