Mike Royko Quotes

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

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• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Become

• The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Me

• It was always my dream to write for a living.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Living

• If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Time
  • God
  • Future

• Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • World
  • Music
  • Why

• If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Want
  • You
  • Honey

• Liberation is not deliverance.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Freedom
  • Liberation

• Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Everyone
  • Started
  • Rumors

• I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Like
  • Literary
  • Entertained

• My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Movie
  • Black
  • City

• The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Understanding
  • Road

• I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Up
  • Powerful
  • Texas

• I will write another book if I feel like it.

  

  James Herriot
  • Book

• CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• When you're just focused on nutrition and hunger, that's a harder, harder lift in isolation.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry

• Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Time
  • Home
  • Challenge

• I walk in the world as a woman because I am a woman, and people should take me as that. I'm not passing as anything that I'm not. I'm just being myself.

  

  Janet Mock
  • People
  • World

• By my third try, Lady Aithra had lost her patience and brought me to stand before her son while he was in conference with a group of hard-faced Athenian nobles. I smiled unashamedly when she called me willful, wild, and ungrateful, which provoked her so much that she actually dared to declare, “My son, you must not marry this girl. I don’t care how beautiful she is, she’ll bring us nothing but grief and leave Athens in flames!

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Son
  • Patience
  • Conference

• A house is kind of scary.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Kind
  • Scary

• I just wanna hear my own voice.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Voice
  • Just
  • My Own

• History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

  

  M. King Hubbert
  • History
  • Science
  • Past

• You know what we say in the Hamptons: If you have to come out on a Friday afternoon or go back on a Sunday night, you're not rich enough to have a house there. So, you have to be able to come and go when you feel like it in the Hamptons.

  

  Steven Gaines
  • Rich
  • Go Back
  • Hamptons

• Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

  

  Mike Royko
  • Popular
  • Belief
  • Rich