Ernie Els Quotes

I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.

Ernie Els

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• I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • May
  • Winning

• When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Fun

• Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Step
  • Only
  • Higher

• Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Ideas

• I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Think
  • Day

• I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Give
  • Take

• Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Also

• Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Scholarship
  • Yale

• Like materialism, consumerism and socialism, transnationalism suffers from the same fatal flaw. It feeds the body and starves the soul. And eventually bored people hear the old calls again.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Soul
  • Bored

• 'Rachael Ray does to food what Hitler did to Poland.' Attributed to credentialed chef Anthony Bourdain.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food

• Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Eclipse

• I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Life
  • Up
  • Perfect

• When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Success

• My eccentricity became direction.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier

• When you are on the floor, there's no better feeling than when your teammates are into the game on the bench and are cheering for you and vice versa. When you come out of the game, you are cheering for those guys that are on the floor.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Game
  • Feeling

• I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• I took up boxing as a fitness thing. I got obsessed, and I would go every day when I wasn't working. It's just an insane sport when you get into it.

  

  Lena Headey
  • Up
  • Boxing
  • Fitness

• Two women? God, man. Well, I'm still living. So clearly I must've gotten away with it, when I did do it. But I don't think it's time to blow my cover now.

  

  Peter Gallagher Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Time
  • God
  • Women

• When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Kids
  • Simple

• I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.

  

  Ernie Els
  • Kids
  • Born
  • Outside