Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes

I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.

Ricky Williams

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• I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Think
  • Blessing
  • Curse

• I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Me
  • Smart

• I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Cool
  • Young
  • Taught

• If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Family

• I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Value
  • Face
  • Answers

• Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• …if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • May
  • History

• The ability... to experiment with imaginary situations, gives man a freedom... the pleasure in trying out and exploring imaginary situations. A child's play is concerned with this pleasure; and so is much of art, and much of science... Pure science... is a form of play, in this sense.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Science

• We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.

  

  Kent Beck
  • People
  • Funny
  • Technology

• To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?

  

  Burnie Burns
  • World
  • Game
  • Amazing

• I will say this: One thing I did see in my reporting again and again is that the Obamas themselves are much more involved in handling stories than is usually known.

  

  Jodi Kantor

• I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Past

• After 'Real Live Woman,' I wasn't sure I'd ever want to make another record.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Live
  • Real

• I don't like doing the same runs. I like to mix it up a lot.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Up

• I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

  

  Dean Norris
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

  

  Christopher Morley
  • Mind
  • Pain
  • Beauty

• When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • People
  • Writing

• I first watched 'Adhe Adhure' in college. I loved it, and it stayed with me ever since. I decided that I would some day direct this play - not in English, but in Hindi.

  

  Lillete Dubey
  • College
  • English

• My dad was in a Beatles cover band. My mom wore Candies and belly buttons. The people in our family were very glamorous. They wore pearls like Jackie O.

  

  Azita Ghanizada
  • People
  • Family
  • Dad

• Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? That's the challenge. How much are you willing to take on for your character?

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Real
  • Character
  • Comedy

• As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Long
  • Kill

• As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

  

  Warren Harding
  • inspirational
  • Mountain
  • Climbing

• I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.

  

  Ricky Williams