Elizabeth Enright Quotes

The Carthage traffic cop has an alligator in his bathtub!

Elizabeth Enright

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• The cop in 'Dhruva' had to be much more agile, far more fit and alert than any role I had played so far. I built the body that the role required. If it's been appreciated, I am glad.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Body
  • Role
  • Fit

• There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Traffic
  • Extra
  • Extra Mile

• While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Story
  • Debate
  • Traffic

• YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Problem
  • YouTube
  • Traffic

• I took a learjet to cop some lipstick Yeah Imma risk it I'm optimistic

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Risk
  • Optimistic
  • Lipstick

• A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to the ground for the freedom that Cecilia took for granted, but right now, she couldn’t pause to honor his memory, because a last-minute change of party theme was unacceptable. That’s what happened when you had freedom. You lost your mind over a pirate party.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Mind
  • She
  • Freedom

• Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • River
  • Alligator

• Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Situation
  • Crime
  • Streets

• If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Real
  • Anger
  • Courtesy

• I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

  

  William Powell
  • Circumstances
  • Appreciate
  • Temper

• If these railroad crossings were fixed right with metal devices that come down and block traffic, people couldn't pull up and get killed.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • People
  • Block
  • Killed

• There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Thinking
  • Fate
  • Able

• I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

  

  William Gibson
  • Book
  • Reality
  • Proud

• Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Important
  • Sometimes
  • Determination

• My acting range is incredibly limited and narrow, but I'm a good heavy. I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. "Can you be a cop?" Sure. "Can you be a Marine?" Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Acting
  • Figures
  • Marine

• What else is stop and frisk? These neighborhoods are unsafe not because there's not enough cops illegally frisking people. They're not safe because of economic conditions. They're not safe because of all types of things in the government that people like Mike Bloomberg and Ray Kelly should be looking to fix instead of randomly searching kids in the hood. If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there, too.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Kids
  • College

• I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.

  

  Sebastian Thrun
  • Passion
  • Car
  • Hours

• Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Week
  • Computer
  • Modern

• Aware that a man has no more chance with a woman, armed with the offensive and defensive weapons of tongue, tears, nails, and bamboo, than in a river with an alligator, I, for the first time in my life, acted prudently, and fled the fight.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Chance
  • Fight
  • Weapons

• I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Ready

• To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Blind
  • Figures
  • Hearing

• What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Power
  • Action

• I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.

  

  Michael Ondaatje
  • Remember
  • Desire
  • Direction

• The Carthage traffic cop has an alligator in his bathtub!

  

  Elizabeth Enright
  • Traffic
  • Cop
  • Alligator