Best Rockford Files Quotes

#1. Jesus bases everything on God-realization, while other teachers base everything on self-realization.

Oswald Chambers

#2. Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Carrie Snow

#3. When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#4. Two hopeful hearts, two lands apart. Together there's no end to what our dream can start.

Pocahontas

#5. When I was in third grade, I would run home - literally run home from school - and if I could make it in time, I could get home and the put the TV on in time to catch the answering machine message at the start of 'The Rockford Files.'

Greg Rucka

#6. I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.

Dawn French

#7. The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your interests.

Claire Fagin

#8. Howard: Sometimes a betrayal can be so subtle that it clouds the whole thing.

Nita: It would have to be a real betrayal. Not like canceling an appointment. It would be like you'd end the relationship in the middle.

Howard: Why would I call it off?

Nita: I don't know!

Sarah E. Olson

#9. Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.

F. Mulder

#10. I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. You can have a coke since you never did learn to be civilized and drink coffee.

Nora Roberts

#12. She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

Ann Brashares

#13. Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.

Richard Corliss

#14. Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.

Thomm Quackenbush