Evel Knievel Quotes

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.

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• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • College
  • Passion
  • Risk

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Pretty
  • Human
  • Voice

• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Week

• A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Just
  • News
  • Steal

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • World
  • Food
  • Simple

• I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Kitchen

• Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Freedom
  • Education
  • Justice

• It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Why
  • Question

• National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

  

  Kim Jong Il
  • People

• I'm a huge fan of Steve Martin. He's hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Life
  • Hilarious

• I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.

  

  Lori Petty
  • People
  • Home
  • Crazy

• I wish I'd heard about quickie divorce packs from Tesco's sooner.

  

  Davinia Taylor
  • Wish
  • Divorce

• Anytime I'm at a club or a party, I'm dancing from beginning to end.

  

  Agnes Bruckner
  • Party
  • Beginning

• You know, I think that anything you do at Apple... you feel a tremendous onus. You want to carry on the legacy of what it meant.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Legacy

• He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Poet
  • Homer
  • Gertrude Stein

• A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Long
  • Free
  • Peace

• We have a lot to learn from bonobos, because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined to one aspect of their life that they set aside. It permeates their entire life.

  

  Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Behavior

• What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Experiment
  • Investigation

• Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Trouble
  • Jump
  • Motorcycle