Evel Knievel Quotes

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

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• I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Fun
  • Me

• I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Music
  • History
  • Training

• People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Book
  • First
  • Late

• Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Going

• No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Future
  • Stop
  • Technology

• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Live
  • Death
  • Die

• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Grow

• This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Air

• We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Model

• Medio de fonte leporumsurgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat.

  

  Lucretius

• I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Book

• Multiple Bentleys isn't making anyone 'financially set.'

  

  Kyrie Irving

• Robert De Niro... I had a chance to meet him, and I hope to get to work with him one day.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Work
  • Hope

• My primary focus will be Malayalam films. I will choose from what comes my way and take a call irrespective of the language.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan
  • Focus

• My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Church
  • Practice
  • Prayer

• It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Friends
  • Weird

• I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one.

  

  David Bergen
  • Up
  • Writing

• Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • Fall
  • Silence

• I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.

  

  Annie Smith Peck
  • Hurt
  • Lions
  • Tigers

• "Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Hurt
  • Imagine
  • Changed

• I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Man
  • Hurt
  • Going To

• I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Hurt
  • Pants
  • Seat