Top 100 Do You Get Quotes
#1. Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"
"I give."
"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.
David Foster Wallace
#2. I met the man of my dreams at a gym, and then we got married in Vegas - because we're classy. When you meet at a gym, where else do you get married?
Megan Hilty
#3. We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.
Chris Hedges
#5. The irritating question they ask us
us being writers
is: "Where do you get your ideas?"
And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!
Neil Gaiman
#6. Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
Dan Phillips
#7. I love to see my records broken, I really do, you get a chance to relive your life, the whole experience.
Don Hutson
#8. People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.
Garry Marshall
#9. Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say 'It all happened so fast.
J.A. Redmerski
#10. I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How else do you get Oedipus? That's the first cheating in the theater.
Mike Nichols
#11. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.
Mark Steyn
#12. I review books."
"Do you get paid for them?"
I laughed out loud at that. "No, not at all."
Daemon seemed confused by that. "So you review books and you don't get paid if someone buys a book based on your review?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#13. How do you get places?"
"I go around saving attractive girls," he says. "Obviously.
Suzanne Young
#14. There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!"
Winona Ryder
#15. What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe
Douglas Adams
#16. I'm not an epileptic but you're an arsehole. I'm important. I matter. I can do anything. I'm a sexy, strong woman that happens to have epilepsy. Do you get it? I have epilepsy but it's not who I am.
Ray Robinson
#17. Remember that conversation is like ping pong. You say something, she says something. Then you respond to something she's just said, then she bats it back. You ask her a question. She replies. Do you get the idea?
Sue Townsend
#18. Where do you get the gall to call the people who died in 9/11 technocrats when you sit around and get a $90,000 paycheck from the government you purport to hate?
Ward Churchill
#19. Why do you get to act all crazy over a guy and I don't?" Anna asked.
"You have to earn the crazy," Grace said. "You're not old enough yet.
Jill Shalvis
#20. Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.
Rupert Everett
#21. I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.
Liza Minnelli
#22. Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.
Ashwin Sanghi
#23. What do you get when you cross a Rottweiler with a Collie? A dog who bites off your arm and goes to get help.
Various
#24. Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.
Liane Balaban
#25. When I tell people that I'm vegan, the first question asked is, 'How do you get enough protein?' This immediately tells me that they are uneducated and know little or nothing about nutrition.
Robert Cheeke
#26. What do you get when you cross an egomaniacal fairy godmother, an arrogant genie, and a couple of wandering plagiarists whose idea of cultural preservation is stealing the stories of unsuspecting villagers and passing them off as their own?
Kate SeRine
#28. Other people have all kinds of information about you that is invisible to you. How do you get feedback?
Sheila Heen
#29. What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?
Simon Munnery
#30. I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away.
Chris Van Allsburg
#31. What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
Ben Horowitz
#32. Yes, you do. You get everything you want out of people. I don't know how you do it, but you are a born wheedler." "Thank you. Fire away.
Louisa May Alcott
#33. Wisdom you don't get in colleges, schools, universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong.
Nirmala Srivastava
#34. When your world's become one person, how do you prepare to let her go? How do you get over someone you know you'll never forget?
Katie Kacvinsky
#35. Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?
Lynne Truss
#36. Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don't just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That's desertion.
Stephen Colbert
#37. Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.
Warren Buffett
#38. How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.
Richard Simmons
#39. A guy comes down to earth, takes your sins, dies, and comes back three days later. You believe in him and go to heaven forever. How do you get from that to Hide-The-Eggs? Did Jesus have a problem with eggs? Did he go, "When I come back, if I see any eggs, the whole salvation thing is off."
Jon Stewart
#40. Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their own understanding of how the brain functions and is structured. How do you get them all around the same table?
Henry Markram
#41. Do you get a percentage for every soul you corrupt or is this just how you get your kicks?" I enquired.
"Take it as a compliment. I only try to corrupt people I like.
Jane Cousins
#42. Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
Garrison Keillor
#43. You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!
Charles M. Schulz
#44. What do you get out of it? You'd lose one of the most important aspects in this deal, the ability to veto any decision."
"I get you.
Jennifer Probst
#45. Every artist gets asked the question, "Where do you get your ideas?" The honest artist answers, "I steal them.
Austin Kleon
#46. What's beautiful, grey and wears glass slippers? Cinderelephant. Why are elephants wrinkled? They don't fit on the ironing board. How do you get down from an elephant? You don't. You get down from a goose. Why do elephants have trunks? Because they'd look funny with a glove compartments
Jodi Picoult
#47. Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.
Ben Foster
#48. You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'
Jerry Seinfeld
#49. I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?
Sarah Stillman
#50. Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered.
Where do you get your ideas?
I purposely mishear things.
Harlan Ellison
#51. Using high math and computations, he engineers them, with one goal in mind: to create the biggest crave. "People say, 'I crave chocolate,' " Moskowitz told me. "But why do we crave chocolate, or chips? And how do you get people to crave these and other foods?
Michael Moss
#52. GreenHollyWood is a stupid fat guy, saying (I will watch that and I will check that...) and in the end nothing there isn't progress why??
To fat to move!
(It's a black joke, do you get it?)
Deyth Banger
#53. Cotter leaned forward. "Where do you get off being such a bossy bitch?"
I looked him dead in the eyes. "I was born a bossy birch, so you can either roll with it or get rolled over.
Rachel Bach
#54. Do you get the same peace of mind that I do when you're causing random damage? Especially random, senseless, mindless damage that serves no real purpose. That's my favorite kind, you know! That's the best!
Robin Wayne Bailey
#56. A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.
Bre Pettis
#57. How do you get to be a person who is made miserable because the weather changed its mind, because the weather doesn't live up to your expectations? How do you get to be that way?
Jamaica Kincaid
#58. What can I give you? I get a handsome guy who does look good in the morning, and I get a great ring. What do you get?"
"The only thing I've ever wanted." He held her tight and smiled. "I get you,wild thing.
Rachel Gibson
#59. You can have all of the laws and protection in place, but how do you get rid of homophobia? This is something that the U.S. is going to have to deal with.
James Costos
#60. C: What do you get when a giant sneezes?
Out of the way. - Marigold
Jean Ferris
#61. #LateNightMusings:
If you sext, do you get a phoner?
-Buzzboss
Cambria Hebert
#62. What do you get when you give a teenager $200 million? A bunch of has-beens calling you a lesbian for two hours ...
Justin Bieber
#63. Only in the gospel do you get the verdict before the performance. I love you. Now love me. I love you. Now you can love me.
Matt Papa
#64. When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?
Robert G. Allen
#65. Third-person camera is way harder than I even imagined it could be. It is the hardest problem in video game development. Everybody gets it wrong. It's just a question of how close to right do you get it.
Warren Spector
#66. What do you get when you mix my blood with holy water?" Nick
"Demon napalm"Kody
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#67. In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.
Chuck Klosterman
#68. Because when you love someone, that's what you do - you get involved.
Jessica Khoury
#69. You invite a few players in to start a game of Texas Hold'em by telling them that the deck doesn't have any jacks or queens in it and that you won't tell the other people who come to play with them. How do you get people into the casino? You pay the brokers to bring them there.
Michael Lewis
#70. It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?
John Green
#71. All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"
Ellen DeGeneres
#72. Bottom line, Eliza - you're my home and my family, and I don't want to lose you.
I could lose everything else, and as long as I still had you and a guitar I know I'd be all right. Do you get what I'm saying?
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#73. Especially with DVRs nowadays, people have their roster. More and more, it's not just, 'I'll watch what's on at 9 P.M.' They have their backlog of the shows they always watch, that they record every week, and it's a matter of, how do you get into that list?
Greg Berlanti
#74. What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?
Peter Abrahams
#75. I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.
Justin Kirk
#76. The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?
Peter Jackson
#77. How often do you get a movie where the coolest character has your own real last name? I played Bob Morales as a cross between my own father - the passion, the fury - and the real Bob Morales. I loved that movie. People, kids always come up to me and tell me how much they still love 'La Bamba.'
Esai Morales
#78. Why do you get angry with the storm? The storm is just going from somewhere to somewhere else, just like you! Everything lives its own life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. Do you get a nice monthly check from the government for dwelling on things?
Doug Benson
#81. Where the hell do you get your nerve?
From a Cracker Jack box.
Lora Leigh
#82. You lent me The Golden Compass! It's full of jinni trickery, and you were angry at me when I told you that made it dangerous! Why do you get mad when religion tells you that the things you want to be true are true?
When it's true, it's not fun anymore. All right? When it's true it's scary.
G. Willow Wilson
#83. Q: What do you get when you breed a groundhog and a West Point Cadet? A: Six more weeks of bad football!
Andy A. Bufalo
#84. We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.
John Green
#85. If you wish to see it as it should be seen, don't wait - there's little time. How do you get there? Well, I couldn't tell you.
Edward Abbey
#86. They were innocent people. They could just do things you couldn't imagine. I can see code, do you get it? Algorithms that confound straights are just patterns to me. They come in my dreams. I dream the most beautiful programs never written.
Marcus Sakey
#87. And what the hell does that even mean? Why would you serve food for thoughgs, and what kind of food? If you serve spinach, do you get healthy thoughts? If it's ice cream and candy, it is fun thoughts? Why do we say stupid things?
J.D. Robb
#88. Where do you get your fantastic ideas from? You steal them. You steal them from reality. It outstrips fantasy most the time.
Terry Pratchett
#89. You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
#90. Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.
Max Brooks
#91. Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
Walter Payton
#92. The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade Runner. Welcome to your science fiction. Your 21st century. I think that's where it goes. The rich get richer and everyone else ... the middle class kind of starts dropping lower and lower.
Henry Rollins
#93. How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"
"I-95.
Bryan Way
#94. If you do what you always do, you get what you always get."
~Stacy
Xanthe Walter
#95. I have trouble asking for what I want, especially when it comes to men."
"If you don't ask for what you want, how do you get it?" Felicia asked. "If you're relying on him guessing, you're sabotaging your own happiness.
Susan Mallery
#96. Where do you get bitter cherries?" Deuce asked.
"Disgruntled trees.
Abigail Roux
#99. Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
Mike Krzyzewski
#100. Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.
Demitri Martin
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