Augustus Saint-Gaudens Quotes

Coming to Paris has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

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• It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Game
  • Football
  • Sports

• Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Like
  • Gone
  • Favor

• I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Happy
  • Start

• I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Think
  • Very
  • Respectful

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Say
  • Much
  • Gonna

• When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Parents
  • Change
  • Gay

• As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Media

• Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • You
  • Running

• As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Up
  • Power
  • Control

• The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Money
  • Things
  • More

• The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Great
  • God
  • Faith

• I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Rich
  • Fascination

• I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

  

  T-Pain
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Thing

• But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Sleep
  • Strange
  • Cats

• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Mr. President, there comes to a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now. And I will not let the PATRIOT Act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Power
  • History

• a Masonic plot backed by the Jews

  

  Hutton Gibson

• If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

  

  Charles W. Pickering
  • People
  • America
  • House

• It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

  

  Alveda King
  • Marriage
  • Institution
  • Genocide

• By the way, Mr. Premier: Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you meet are illiterate or covered head to toe in black burkas or looking for buildings to blow up? It’s a puzzle, isn’t it? If you ever figure these people out, send me an e-mail.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Paris

• Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Technology

• Coming to Paris has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

  

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens
  • Experience
  • Paris
  • Surprising