William Standish Knowles Quotes
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
Quotes to Explore
-
I always played to win.
-
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
-
The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
-
The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
-
I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
-
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
-
When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
-
When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
-
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
-
There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
My brother is really, really slow.
-
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
-
Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
-
I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
-
They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
-
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
-
If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
-
There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.
-
I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
-
My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.
-
My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.
-
Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
-
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
