Richard Adams Quotes

If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

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• Justice is never given; it is exacted.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Justice
  • Never
  • Given

• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  

  Ovid
  • Return
  • Wave
  • Nor

• Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Enjoy
  • Would
  • Dinner

• My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Women
  • Really
  • Neighborhood

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Good
  • Party
  • Leadership

• I was so ashamed of who I was.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Ashamed
  • Who

• From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • True
  • Judge
  • Perspective

• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  

  Ice T
  • Future
  • Want
  • Cinema

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Horror
  • Making
  • Sounds

• I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Life
  • Real
  • Wish

• When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Movie
  • You
  • Hey

• I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Business
  • Think

• In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Gold

• In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

  

  Lisa Randall
  • Time
  • History

• All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talk
  • Ring
  • Rabbits

• After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Good
  • Advice
  • Answers

• He who chases two rabbits, catches none.

  

  Confucius
  • Rabbits
  • Catches
  • Chases

• Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Prayer
  • Belief
  • Amulets

• Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.

  

  John Otway
  • Good
  • Live
  • Career

• If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Advice
  • Rabbits