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

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

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• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Present
  • Like

• When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Cool

• Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Thinking
  • Matter
  • Thing

• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Focus
  • Luck

• For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Me
  • Mean
  • Fantastic

• When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • People
  • Experience
  • Me

• I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Know
  • No Regrets

• I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Think
  • Man
  • Editing

• Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Society
  • Creative
  • Living

• Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Work

• I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Good

• As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Time
  • May
  • Habit

• Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.

  

  James Carville
  • American

• If you can imagine the delight of visiting a theme park where lasting memories are made, we envision 'Sky' will sometimes feel like that.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Memories
  • Sky

• For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso
  • Important
  • Future
  • Confidence

• Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Men
  • School

• I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Chance

• As a professional, as a person, and as a player, I think he's fantastic. It's like he's dancing the tango. I just love how he plays football so elegantly. To me, Andres is Don Andres.

  

  Dani Alves
  • Player
  • Person
  • Professional

• The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

  

  Ricky Williams
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