Ray Guy Quotes

I still get a few dirty looks over the racks in the supermarket, but nobody kicks me in the shins on Water Street. I've made sort of a point, apart from being a social dud, not to fraternize with the people I write about.

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Always
  • Legend

• Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • School

• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Funny
  • Nobody

• Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Song
  • Drama

• People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Mysteries
  • Obsess

• The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Fear
  • Small

• I think people make way too much of ratings.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • Think
  • Too Much

• When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

  

  Carl Jung
  • People

• The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Work
  • Poverty

• If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • People
  • Weekend

• Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Children
  • Ironic

• We need to have people who are talking about, 'Here's exactly what I would do differently.' That's what's important as we go vote.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • People
  • Important

• When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.

  

  Emile Zola
  • People

• Wake up people! If you are gay and living in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, what the fuck else are you gonna do? You're gonna join the musical theatre. That's all you got in Pigeon Forge - there's no 'bear' bar! This is it. Suit up.....put the wings on!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • People
  • Up
  • Gay

• People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often...

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • People
  • Change
  • Minds

• You dream what you're supposed to do.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Dream

• I don't always think I am right, not by a long shot, but no one stifles me. When I care deeply about something, you are going to know.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Long

• Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Life
  • Impossible
  • Humor

• I still get a few dirty looks over the racks in the supermarket, but nobody kicks me in the shins on Water Street. I've made sort of a point, apart from being a social dud, not to fraternize with the people I write about.

  

  Ray Guy
  • People
  • Being
  • Nobody