Bob Sheppard Quotes

#1. My purpose in public address and in speech is really encapsulated in three C's: clear, concise, correct. No overblowing rhetoric or anything like that. As simple as possible: clear, concise, correct.

Bob Sheppard

#2. If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

Mads Mikkelsen

#3. Nobody, but nobody stays a public-address announcer for more than a couple of years. Truly. Public-address announcing is not a career. Public-address announcers only work 81 days a year, so you don't make a living.

Bob Sheppard

#4. My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

Anna Faris

#5. Life is not a transcript. This isn't a test you can ace or fail. You can get Cs and Ds and still be okay.

Robin Friedman

#6. I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking.

Bob Sheppard

#7. Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.

Sandy Berger

#8. To be honest, in 2012, I was against both candidates, and so I just picked any third party because I thought if more people voted for third parties then they'd have to take third parties seriously.

Ronda Rousey

#9. I fell in love with Ryan, you got jealous, then I fell out of love with him because he seemed needy, you tied me up, I got half a chubby because it reminded me of Octavio, and now you have a date with Ryan. Oops. I mean Todd. Gosh, I'm beat. What a long night.

T.J. Klune

#10. There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

Lord Acton

#11. I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to Baldwin, Long Island, where I still reside.

Bob Sheppard

#12. If you do not cut the moorings, God will have to break them by a storm and send you out.

Oswald Chambers