Adam West Quotes

'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.

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• On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Friends
  • Day
  • Mine

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Morning

• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Change
  • Only
  • Inevitable

• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Try
  • Down
  • Dumb

• How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • World
  • Same

• When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • She
  • Lying
  • Said

• What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Black
  • Eyes

• This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Dog

• It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus

• The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • People
  • Listening
  • Lion

• There's no time, place, or purpose of a government shutdown or default.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Time
  • Purpose

• I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • War
  • Listening

• The fact that there's people out there that care about what I'm eating for breakfast or care about a tweet that I posted in 2012 that they pulled up because they were searching on my Twitter and things like that - it's hard to understand, because it's just me, and I just think, 'What's so interesting about me?'

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Up
  • Interesting

• The consumer is the absolute king in everything you do.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • King

• I'm always working hard.

  

  Chloe Kim

• Every single day, entrepreneurship has highs and lows, and you need to feel like you have a community around you. That is insanely important - to have a community of people around you lifting you up and who really know you.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• In the early years of Rent the Runway, our challenge was twofold: getting investors to buy into our vision for how the world was changing and getting women to understand that renting was a viable - let alone a smarter - alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on dresses they would wear just once.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • World
  • Women
  • Alone

• There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

  

  John Edwards
  • Work
  • Done
  • Respect

• Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging?" "What's snogging?" Shane asked. "Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Books
  • Affection
  • Room

• The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's great when everybody can know where everything came from. It's important for the legacy of them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Great
  • Important
  • Character

• On playing Batman and his daughter: If I was doing the sequel to Frozen I would be a hero. My two older daughters could give a sh-t about Batman and they've now passed that affection onto my son. He's always like, 'Papa, can I watch Frozen?' And I'm like, 'No, dude, it's not on again!'.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Son
  • Daughter
  • Hero

• I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.

  

  Jane Green
  • Night

• 'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.

  

  Adam West
  • Batman