Mick Foley Quotes

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment.

Mick Foley

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Marriage
  • Clothes
  • Worst

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Men
  • Sympathy
  • Generosity

• If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Want
  • Stop

• Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Exercise
  • Motherhood
  • Guilt

• The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

  

  Yves Tanguy
  • Reason
  • Painting
  • Liberty

• There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Science
  • Me

• I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Up
  • Service
  • Doing

• I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Cool
  • Scary

• It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Character
  • You
  • Know

• I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Fear

• Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Child

• If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Serious
  • Surprise

• I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Die

• In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

  

  Christopher Fry
  • Life
  • Time

• The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Writing
  • Book

• I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Amazing

• I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Remember
  • Science

• People try to sell a fantasy with beauty campaigns. Overly Photoshopped, perfect, white, thin figures are a standard that most people still hold as beautiful because the industry says so.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Woman

• I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment.

  

  Mick Foley
  • Relationship
  • Serious
  • Commitment