Tim Rice-Oxley Quotes

Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

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• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Essence
  • Creature

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Law

• James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Business
  • Day
  • Honor

• Our life is full of empty space.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Space
  • Empty

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
  • View

• I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Looking
  • Delight
  • Summit

• O Banner!Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Money
  • May
  • Peace

• The function of gossip is to create an 'in group' bond by creating an 'out group' enemy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Enemy
  • Gossip

• The music ends. The screen grows dark. We hurryTo go our devious secret ways, forgettingThose many lives . . . We loved, we laughed, we killed,We danced in fire, we drowned in a whirl of sea-waves.The flutes are stilled, and a thousand dreams are stilled.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Music
  • Dark
  • Fire

• The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Soul

• It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Education

• I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

  

  Bethenny Frankel

• When I was working for Miramax, before Sundance, a videotape of 'The Blair Witch Project' - of the full, completed movie - went to a lot of the buyers. And so we all saw it before the festival, and I passed, a bunch of people passed... Then I watched the movie marching toward success, and was reminded by my bosses what a dope I was.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Movie
  • Success

• 'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.

  

  James Murphy
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• Lo, each subculture has its own language, and verily I am not a parody. You don’t believe me? Get with the program, crackpot!

  

  Barry Webster
  • Believe
  • Language
  • Parody

• The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, 'I saw the Lord,' &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent.

  

  Maimonides
  • Intelligent

• I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

  

  Ben Bradlee

• When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.

  

  Peter Medawar
  • Purpose
  • Mistake
  • Fool

• Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

  

  Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
  • Fool
  • Prove
  • Swimming