Murray Walker Quotes

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

Murray Walker

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• White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • Today
  • Mistake

• Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Death
  • Funny
  • Humor

• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • America
  • Law
  • Mistake

• The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Up
  • Home
  • Alone

• Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Good
  • Power
  • Funny

• Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Experience
  • You
  • Mistake

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Help
  • Understanding
  • Mistake

• You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.

  

  Paige Turco
  • People
  • Sex
  • Humor

• The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Humor

• The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Work
  • Book

• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Looking

• I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Mistake
  • Better
  • Classic

• I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

  

  Beck
  • Love
  • Humor
  • Just

• The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Mistake
  • Same

• Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • May
  • She
  • Support

• I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Humor

• A lot of people perceive women as sexy based on their outer appeal. But there's no way to mistake if a woman is confident.

  

  Trey Songz
  • People
  • Women
  • Mistake

• I didn't really experience any hardship like people tend to think of when they hear the words 'Detroit, Michigan.' I think Big Sean is a much better ambassador for the city.

  

  Mike Posner
  • People
  • Experience
  • Words

• Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Life
  • Men
  • Happy

• An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she’s sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can’t get a job.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Actor
  • Rock Star
  • Hotel Room

• I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Mistake
  • Humor
  • Turns