Ralph Macchio Quotes

There's little that compares with the thrill of a hit major motion picture experience.

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Christmas
  • Cards

• Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • History
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Forever
  • Between
  • Secretary

• You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Experience
  • You
  • Greek

• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Age
  • Suffering

• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Write

• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Lost
  • Winning
  • Tennis

• My wife watches me like a hawk.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Like

• Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Real
  • Stand

• I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Up
  • Age
  • Getting

• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Time
  • You
  • Doing

• When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

  

  Feist
  • Mean
  • Now
  • Hood

• It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.

  

  Natasha Little
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Thought

• I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Job
  • Like
  • Better

• A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

  

  Jason Silva
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music
  • House
  • Cool

• To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

  

  James Buchan
  • Money
  • Quality
  • Unique

• I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • American
  • Political

• Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Money
  • Surprise
  • Root

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• There's little that compares with the thrill of a hit major motion picture experience.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Experience
  • Motion
  • Compares