Will Rogers Quotes

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

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• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Road

• I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Own
  • Fortune
  • Scarf

• If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Day

• I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Guy

• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Money

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Funny
  • Like
  • Modern

• There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Complex

• Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Kind
  • Just
  • Redneck

• When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Writing
  • Today
  • Fall

• My main goal when I started my collection – and I didn’t think beyond this actually – was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people that go to rock concerts.

  

  Anna Sui
  • People
  • Rock

• Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history.

  

  Albert Pike
  • God
  • History
  • Wisdom

• When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

  

  Debra Wilson

• I actually didn't grow up watching 'Degrassi,' but I saw the commercials and knew the characters. I didn't realize that Drake was the guy from 'Degrassi.' I had to piece it together and go, 'Oh! He's Aubrey Graham.'

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Up
  • Together
  • Guy

• With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari
  • Mother
  • City

• I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.

  

  James Herbert

• One of the best decisions we made on the 'Arrow' pilot was to have the Deathstroke mask. Within 30 seconds, you knew you were watching a DC comics show.

  

  Andrew Kreisberg

• An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Picture
  • Service
  • Design

• Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

  

  Jessica Williams

• Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Women
  • Clothes
  • Abduction

• The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Long
  • Think
  • Blow

• If I could still get paid, I would make games and never ship them. I don't enjoy shipping games. I think it's kind of dreadful.

  

  Ken Levine
  • Enjoy
  • Games
  • Shipping

• There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

  

  Will Rogers
  • Reading
  • Comedian
  • Observation