A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. More William James
People hear about my action-packed stuff and they think that I only have one mode. They have trouble believing that my other mode is cross-stitching on the recliner in the cabin! More Catherine Bell
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. More Arthur Schopenhauer
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. More Joseph Roux
Bob Steegerson: [picks up a phone call from Sammy] Bob Steegerson.
Sammy: What are you wearing?
Bob Steegerson: Mom? More Movie: You Can Count on Me [2000] Movie: You Can Count on Me [2000]
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms. More Arthur Rimbaud
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. More Matt Groening
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. More Albert Schweitzer
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. More Robert Frost
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. More Ernest Hemingway
I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it. More Henry David Thoreau
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. More Barbara Bush
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long. More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'll be like, 'Epidural, please!' ... I don't want to go through the pain. More Britney Spears
Kip: I'm just really trying to raise a few bucks now so I can bring her out for a few days.
Uncle Rico: Yeah, well what does she look like?
Kip: She's uh... she's got sandy blonde hair. She's uh... pretty good looking face, but I'm just getting really... just kinda TO'd because... I mean she hasn't even sent me a full body shot yet. More Movie: Napoleon Dynamite [2004] Movie: Napoleon Dynamite [2004]
It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years. More Tom Lehrer
The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose. More Alymer Letterman
I worked about eight and a half years in three different circuses - Barnum and Bailey, Cole Brothers' Circus, and Clyde Beatty. More Al Lewis
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. More Honore De Balzac
If they're giving a heavy sales pitch, I'm suspicious of them. Are they trying to sell a product or trying to help you be successful? More Barbara Moore