Oscar Pistorius Quotes

My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'

Oscar Pistorius

• Parents
• Nice
• Fall
• Myself
• Brother
• Tree
• Sorry
• Crying

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• I read part of it all the way through.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Way
  • Funny
  • Through

• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Rose

• Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Inside
  • Sides
  • Ridiculous

• Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • You
  • Need

• My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Want
  • Hair
  • Grow

• Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Water
  • Growth
  • Key

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Want
  • Start
  • Aim

• The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Industry
  • Publishing

• As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Long
  • Chance
  • Going

• I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Film
  • Dead

• I want to win football games.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Football
  • Win

• Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Write

• Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Want
  • You
  • Feet

• I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Different
  • Way
  • Feeling

• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• I don't normally do pure historical work.

  

  David Grann
  • Work

• I was always kind of serious. It's nice to be able to play a complete bad boy who's the polar opposite to who I am.

  

  Colin O'Donoghue
  • Bad
  • Nice
  • Serious

• There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Done
  • Help
  • Voice

• My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Parents
  • Nice
  • Fall