Beaner Quotes

#1. On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

Katherine Paterson

#2. If you're Filipino, you're the beaner of the Asian community 'cause you're just like us. You're indigenous people that got banged by some Spaniards. That's why you have names like Kwan Ping Del Toro.

Carlos Mencia

#3. It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. I will be the monster for you.

Bree Despain

#5. Anything evil that you do will come back at you.

Heather Graham

#6. I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.

Oscar Robertson

#7. [T]he State ... gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

Benjamin Tucker

#8. I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.

Mark Burnett

#9. Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.

Paul Stamets

#10. Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

Adam Ant

#11. I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

Brett Gelman

#12. I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would ...

Steve Wozniak

#13. Want to lose weight? Do more than just think about it. You don't need to hold off while you keep searching for an abundance of motivation to lose weight.

What you need is an abundance of action.

Shawn Weeks

#14. I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

Harlan Ellison

#15. Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#16. Words that you use determine and control what happens in life.

Steven Redhead

#17. The best we can do is, treat people with sincere respect. Staying is their choice. If they want to leave, they've every right to.

Sarvesh Jain