Bud Collins Quotes

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• Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Food

• You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Start
  • Books
  • Really

• But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Imagination

• Discipline is not a nasty word.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Discipline
  • Word
  • Nasty

• You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Used
  • Remedies
  • Middle Ages

• I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Win

• I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Eye
  • Look

• I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.

  

  Finn Jones
  • War
  • Game
  • Fire

• Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

  

  Hal David
  • Today
  • Learning
  • Everyone

• I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Think
  • Being

• I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Art
  • Way

• My longing for truth was a single prayer.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Truth
  • Single
  • Prayer

• Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • World
  • Me
  • Language

• People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of your day, so it's always difficult. But a little can go a long way. It can literally be 10 or 15 minutes of exercise that can be of real benefit.

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Different
  • Country
  • Friends

• There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Personality

• My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • True
  • Dad
  • Fine

• A Vastness, as a Neighbor, came,A Wisdom, without Face, or Name,A Peace, as Hemispheres at HomeAnd so the Night became.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Night
  • Peace
  • Wisdom

• We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Government
  • Democracy

• I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.

  

  Joe Frazier
  • Up
  • World
  • House

• Fossil fuels will run out not because of limited resources but because of the environmental impact. If I can solve that impact, I have basically increased the resource base by a vast amount.

  

  Klaus Lackner

• The next time Barbie played they had towels ready to hold around her.

  

  Bud Collins
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