Mike Ross Quotes

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

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• You can get all A's and still flunk life.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • You
  • Still

• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Love
  • Best

• Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Like
  • Quarter

• It's not my ambition to be a big star.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Star
  • Ambition
  • Big

• America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • America
  • Thank God

• I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Finish

• There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Good
  • Being
  • Ski

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.

  

  Imelda May
  • Best
  • Try
  • Normal

• I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

  Gail Devers
  • God
  • Children
  • Real

• I was raised to respect women, and I really like them to be strong, independent, and have their own identity. My parents are still together, and I grew up with a lot of love, and I feel that kids imitate what they have at home.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Up
  • Women
  • Home

• I made and created a show that my family was all on board with, and we were so excited because we got to work together.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Work
  • Family
  • Together

• If you don't believe you don't belong.

  

  Alan Kulwicki
  • Believe

• Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.

  

  Alex Chiu
  • People
  • Friends
  • Help

• Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Important
  • Children
  • Together

• If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Health
  • Democracy
  • Election

• My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Power
  • Small
  • Growing

• My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Biology

• I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Skin
  • Routines
  • Moisture

• I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Remember
  • Famous
  • Athlete

• I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

  

  Mike Ross
  • Health
  • Force
  • Principles