Billy the Kid Quotes

I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.

Billy the Kid

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• I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Remember
  • Black

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Time
  • Men
  • Live

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Day
  • Legal
  • Offensive

• I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Done
  • Training

• If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Job
  • Day
  • Same

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Dance
  • Teacher
  • Inspiration

• Rub one out like a man, it's the champagne of victory.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Victory
  • Champagne

• I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

  

  Neil Innes

• I try to get my workouts in in the morning.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Morning

• I've learned how to make a nice souffle, a little mac and cheese.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Nice

• The thing is, it was never a decision for me to never return to acting.

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • Decision

• Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Great
  • Experience

• We brought fashion, fun, and femininity to hip hop.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Control

• I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Taken
  • Choices
  • Madness

• I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.

  

  Bridgette Wilson
  • Life
  • Couple

• And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, 'If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here.' In the air all directions lead everywhere.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Air

• I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.

  

  Billy the Kid
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Knows