Evel Knievel Quotes

I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

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• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Passions

• I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Woman

• People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Man

• I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Words
  • Struggle
  • Start

• When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Future

• My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Thinking
  • Dreams
  • Emotions

• The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Me
  • Cool

• Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wealth
  • Lead
  • Inequalities

• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Deep

• We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Change
  • Inspired
  • Act

• I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

  

  Barber Conable
  • Think
  • Way
  • Decision

• I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.

  

  Edmund Burke

• 'Summon him forth,' instructed the Will. 'Let justice be meted out. There is much to do, you know, Arthur.' 'You'd think we could 'ave a cup of tea and biscuit first,' muttered Suzy.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Justice
  • Tea

• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.

  

  Alfred Whitney Griswold
  • Good
  • Done
  • Truth

• Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Faith

• I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• Sit caeca futurimens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.

  

  Lucan

• I was taught that you can't be a healthy individual without art, music, or nature in your life. All my art is tied into inner cultural experience. It has to do with music or ceremonies or nature, even the funny ones.

  

  Michael Horse
  • Life
  • Music
  • Art

• I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Life