Evel Knievel Quotes

I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

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• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Thanks

• From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Sometimes
  • Risk
  • Use

• I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Power

• I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Way
  • Knows
  • Paris

• When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Law
  • Christianity
  • Morality

• I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Pornography

• The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Believe
  • French
  • Destructive

• Everybody has a secret and everybody has problems.

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Problem
  • Secret

• Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Choice
  • Playing

• What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Want
  • Question
  • Internally

• I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

  

  Erich Segal
  • Reason
  • Accepted
  • Rejected

• We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the dream of that, but we all know this dream may be not possible. So here we have the key of the ambiguity of the atmosphere of my films. Is it possible, this dream? Is it as funny as it seems, or is it tragic?

  

  Albert Serra
  • Dream
  • Create
  • Atmosphere

• I don't like people calling the character of our players into question.

  

  Bryan Murray
  • Character
  • Question
  • Players

• I've never really seen myself as an actress. I told myself, 'I'm not going to get a job where I need to put on makeup, or one that I need to do my nails.' I hate the idea of putting on makeup, then removing it.”

  

  Ann Kok
  • Idea
  • Makeup
  • Actress

• If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once created, we would hire writers and lyricists to make up the text and the story line. I was the first to do this backwards with 'Man of La Mancha.'

  

  Mitch Leigh
  • Would
  • Created
  • Series

• I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Created
  • Got away