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

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

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• Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Up
  • Time
  • Small

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Want
  • Generation

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Wealth

• Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Revolution

• The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • English
  • Cricket

• As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Art
  • Support
  • Professional

• A week after you read this chapter, misandry will become apparent in commercials, in films, in everyday conversations. But the bias that is hardest to see is the bias we share.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Everyday

• The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Time
  • Power
  • Truth

• I am staying unsettled and trying not to talk for three years. I want to do it very much.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Trying

• I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future.

  

  Danny Pino
  • Future
  • Wife

• I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm.

  

  David Keith
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fake

• What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

  

  Elias Hicks
  • Truth
  • Friends

• When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Together

• Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • Humanity
  • Green

• Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.

  

  Bernard Hill
  • Perfect

• It's OK to have a little bit of curve.

  

  Miranda Lambert

• The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • Country
  • Effort
  • Financial

• I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Life
  • Famous
  • Planning

• You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Hero

• The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

  

  Karl Popper
  • World
  • Important
  • Political

• And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Why
  • Business

• I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Support

• Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

  

  Ricky Williams