Michael Landon Quotes

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Michael Landon

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Find
  • Ignorance
  • News

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Smart
  • Emotion
  • Face

• There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Hope
  • Nothing
  • Expect

• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Great
  • History

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Table
  • Electricity

• If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Fall
  • Self-pity

• 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

• The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Inspiration

• It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Now
  • Short

• Too clever is dumb.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Dumb
  • Clever
  • Too

• When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

  

  Laura Dern
  • You
  • Care
  • Parent

• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Life
  • Man
  • Gardening

• You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

  

  John Keats

• I grew up while I was in college. I learned how to take care of myself. I learned how to prioritize things. I learned how to get things done.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Up
  • Done
  • College

• If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Powerful
  • Horse

• I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Live
  • Character

• Can we do too much for the Lord? Certainly we all love Him. Therefore, I implore us, keep His commandments and become more like Him. Come unto Christ, eat the bread of life, drink the living water, and feast on His limitless love. He is our Savior, our Master, of whom I bear my humble witness.

  

  F. Melvin Hammond
  • Life
  • Water
  • Humble

• Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

  

  Michael Landon
  • Life
  • Live
  • Sometimes