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

• 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

• Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • Reading

• If we speak of an angry God at all, we will speak of a God angry at indifference, angry at apathy, angry at racism and violence, angry at inhumanity, angry at waste, angry at destruction, angry at injustice, angry at hostile religious clannishness. That anger is never against us (or them); it is against what is against us (and them).

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Violence
  • Racism

• It's the only way that Democrats can win in Illinois, is to say, 'Oh, Kirk has health problems, he's going to retire.' For Democrats looking at a minority life and seeing that they cannot win in Illinois is so frustrating that they will just assume away any issue. They'll just say to willing reporters, 'I think Kirk is going to retire.'

  

  Mark Kirk
  • Life
  • Health

• Who wouldn't be depressed living in a society that can't agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?

  

  Owen King
  • Society
  • Reality
  • Alone

• A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write a novel,' and they maybe find the first three pages quite easy, and then they hit a kind of brick wall, and they think that that brick wall means that they're not a writer.

  

  Alex Garland
  • People
  • Wall
  • Ambition

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

  

  Mike Ross
  • Health
  • Force
  • Principles