Richard Simmons Quotes
I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people.
Quotes to Explore
-
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
-
When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.
-
I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!
-
I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
-
I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
-
I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
-
What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.
-
All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.
-
The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.
-
When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.
-
Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.
-
I think what President Barack Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the George W. Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies.
-
Try to find fellowship... And try to find sisterhood... And try to find that village that can help you support your journey and your kids and your experiences. Never lose a sense of yourself throughout the process, and still pursue your dreams as a mom.
-
Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.
-
For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.
-
Whether you’re gay, straight, divorced, on drugs, a prostitute… I don’t care. Be who you are and love who you want.
-
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
-
I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people.
