Getting Quotes - page 2

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. (Brian May)
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. View quote
James Thurber
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. View quote
Andy Rooney
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. View quote
Steve Jobs
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. View quote
Mae West
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. (John Goodman)
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. View quote
Iris Murdoch
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. View quote
Anne Bradstreet
I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend. View quote
Woody Allen
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Life is one long process of getting tired. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk. View quote
William Howard Taft
And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara. View quote
Phil Ochs
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. (Douglas Adams)
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. View quote
Sophia Loren
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. View quote
Denis Diderot
We are always getting ready to live but never living. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. View quote
Ellen Goodman
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