Evel Knievel Quotes

You can't ask a guy like me why I performed. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.

Evel Knievel

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• Death
• Scared
• Performed

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• The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Creativity

• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Model
  • Working

• Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Great
  • Succeed
  • Founders

• I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memories that I made while playing in the drama.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Drama

• My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Job

• First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Competition
  • Wonderful

• When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Enough
  • Year

• Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Up
  • Luxury
  • Italy

• I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• Yes, it was not journalism’s finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  

  Larry Wall

• Ein Mittler ist derjenige, der Göttliches in sich wahrnimmt, und sich selbst vernichtend Preis giebt, um dieses Göttliche zu verkündigen, mitzutheilen, und darzustellen allen Menschen in Sitten und Thaten, in Worten und Werken.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Fun
  • Discipline
  • Gym

• There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.'

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Time
  • Thinking

• To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Truth
  • House
  • Inspiration

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Money
  • Home
  • House

• Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Life
  • Death
  • Chance

• You can't ask a guy like me why I performed. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Money
  • Death
  • Scared