Mike Tyson Quotes
I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'
Quotes to Explore
-
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
-
There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
-
Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
-
And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
-
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
-
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
-
I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
-
The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
-
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
-
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
-
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
-
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
-
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
-
Death is the beginning of something.
-
My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
-
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
-
I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
-
The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.
-
I sometimes say to people who have life-challenging illnesses: "Right now you are tempted to think that if you were physically well you would be happy. But if that were true, everybody who is physically well would be happy."
-
I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dull as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.
-
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
-
Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.
-
I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'
