Mick Cornett Quotes

We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

Mick Cornett

• Cities
• Oklahoma
• Speeding
• Congestion

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• Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Thought

• If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • History
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

  

  Andre Rieu
  • Long
  • Home
  • Garden

• No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Baby
  • Right
  • Choose

• Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him.

  

  Saadi Yacef
  • People
  • Long
  • Death

• I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!

  

  Kai Greene
  • Truth
  • Food
  • Feels

• Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

  

  Ludwig Tieck
  • Wisdom
  • Stupid
  • Act

• Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Fake
  • Photograph
  • Finish

• There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.

  

  Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda
  • World
  • Enough

• Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

  

  H. Richard Niebuhr

• Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft

• If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal.

  

  Maddox

• Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.

  

  Maddox
  • Water
  • Drinking

• My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Done
  • Stop
  • Dad

• I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Mean

• Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Work
  • Real
  • Break

• Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Stills
  • Remakes
  • '80s

• But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Together

• I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Beat
  • Handsome
  • Round

• There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Trying
  • Business
  • City

• We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

  

  Mick Cornett
  • Cities
  • Oklahoma
  • Speeding