Top 100 Ed Quotes

#1. I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

Ed Harris

#2. I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.

Ed Speleers

#3. Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It's a drug and makes you feel whatever the song's about.

Ed Westwick

#4. The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.
In the end, Religion will kill us all.

Ed Krebs

#5. We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

Ed O'Brien

#6. We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

Ed Balls

#7. The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.

Ed Koch

#8. Actual places, landscapes that exist[ed] simultaneously in both physical and metaphysical space ... true geographical refugia, verdant valleys dominated by protective mountain deities where people could seek solace as lonely pilgrims, or flee violence as a community in time of war.

Wade Davis

#9. The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly is temporary, spiritual is everlasting. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 127]

Edward T. Welch

#10. But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

Pete Docter

#11. We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.

Ed O'Brien

#12. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Ed Koch

#13. Creativity involves missteps and imperfections. I wanted our people to get comfortable with that idea - that both the organization and its members should be willing, at times, to operate on the edge.

Ed Catmull

#14. Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. So I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

Ed Helms

#15. There was no miracle that night ...

Ed King

#16. My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

Ed Droste

#17. I channel surf like probably most people.

Ed O'Neill

#18. I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Ed Begley Jr.

#19. He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

Ed Parker

#20. Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

Fred Allen

#21. Hindsight is 20-20.

Ed Catmull

#22. I'm always nervous about singing ... always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.

Ed Robertson

#23. We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.

Ed Rendell

#24. The next name on the list is Ed Valiantbrue, which doesn't have an O in it anyway."
"O!" Sunny shrieked.
"O!" Klaus agreed.
"O!" Sunny insisted.
"Oh!" Klaus cried. "I see what you mean! If it doesn't have am O in it, it can't be an anagram of Violet Baudelaire.

Lemony Snicket

#25. Uncertainty and change are life's constraints. And that's the fun part.

Ed Catmull

#26. Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?

Michele Bachmann

#27. It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

Ed Stoppard

#28. The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it's about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

Ed Stetzer

#29. To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!

Ed Reed

#30. Knowledge does not grow like a tree where you dig a hole, plant your feet, cover them with dirt, and pour water on them daily. Knowledge grows with time, work, and dedicated effort. It cannot come by any other means.

Ed Parker

#31. I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.

Ed Case

#32. There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

Ed Parker

#33. My friends, welcome to the other side of the rainbow

Ed Murray

#34. I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.

Ed Sheeran

#35. I really do consider myself quite fledgling in my acting career. I've only been doing it for 10 years and that's a short amount of time, really.

Ed Speleers

#36. You don't have to ask permission to take responsibility.

Ed Catmull

#37. Because Adam, God's deputy on earth, transfered his legal dominion to Satan, God became obligated to recognize Satan's legal standing.

Ed Silvoso

#38. If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

Ed Parker

#39. No Prophet ever said to follow a church, religion or holy book. Do you think that is just a coincidence?

Ed Strachar

#40. The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure - to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn't strike terror into your employees' hearts.

Ed Catmull

#41. I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

Ed Case

#42. In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

Ed O'Neill

#43. I'm not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth.

Ed Catmull

#44. Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

Ed Rendell

#45. The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

Ed Sheeran

#46. I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Shockley

#47. I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.

Ed Miliband

#48. I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

Carson Daly

#49. If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

Ed Stoppard

#50. One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

Ed Harris

#51. There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

Ed Rollins

#52. One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.

Ed Droste

#53. Wales smiled sadly. "Dig, dig, clear every little detail, that's a detective's life. A crime is like an iceberg, one-tenth showing and nine-tenths hidden.

Ed Lacy

#54. I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!

Ed Gamble

#55. If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.

Ed Koch

#56. To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

Ed Stetzer

#57. There's someone I might be getting closer to, that's all. But it's not quite coming together yet. I think I'm not ready, either," I said. "Have you got ED?" she said. "Um, no, for a number of different reasons," I said, "but it might be something similar.

Banana Yoshimoto

#58. In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions ... We've got to buck that trend

Ed Miliband

#59. Our job is to protect the new.

Ed Catmull

#60. Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a gallon and save more oil within 10 years than we could ever produce from the Arctic Refuge ...

Ed Markey

#61. It's ok to be not ok.

Ed Sheeran

#62. The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

Ed Sheeran

#63. I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

Ed Oxenbould

#64. In order to always treat others, as we would wish to be treated ourselves, we have to learn about each other. Not just relying on an op-ed piece we may have read here, or a half-remembered interview on the television program there that happens to chime with our own views.

Karen Armstrong

#65. Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

Dan Fogelberg

#66. My heart applauds inside my ears, first like a roaring crowd, then slows and slows until it's a solitary person, clapping with unbridled sarcasm.
Clap. Clap.
Clap.
Well done, Ed.
Well given up.

Markus Zusak

#67. is pre-eminently a redemptive system. It

Ed Wharton

#68. A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.

Dan Rather

#69. Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

Ed Rendell

#70. But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?

Ed Koch

#71. Don't hold me down
I think my braces are breaking, and it's more than I can take.

Ed Sheeran

#72. Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

Ed Smith

#73. If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

Ed Gillespie

#74. Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare, all the rest, it's all fine, well and good, except it doesn't move you forward.

Ed Rollins

#75. Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof!

Chris Rock

#76. There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

Ed Rendell

#77. I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

Louis Tomlinson

#78. Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

Ed Miliband

#79. When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness ... The wilderness is the place where God meets his people, Satan attacks, and kingdom allegiances are revealed. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 118]

Edward T. Welch

#80. Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends - well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.

Maisie Williams

#81. You have to do things that excite you; you have to have a passion for your work. Otherwise you're just a face on the screen.

Ed Westwick

#82. Fizz Ed is gym class,

Dan Gutman

#83. The desire for everything to run smoothly is a false goal - it leads to measuring people by the mistakes they make rather than by their ability to solve problems.

Ed Catmull

#84. When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

Ed Westwick

#85. We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

Ed Markey

#86. I love working in America!

Ed Oxenbould

#87. I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z'ed up.

John Green

#88. I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that ... Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture.'

Cindy Sherman

#89. It's hard to take sex ed seriously when the teachers haven't even wiggled their stuff in this millennium.

Amber Kizer

#90. a fresh carrot from the garden has a complex flavor that is lost after a few days in transit.

Ed Cyzewski

#91. I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even.

Ed Rollins

#92. Trends become more apparent as you step further away from the chart.

Ed Seykota

#93. Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.

Ed Crane

#94. Be yourself. Embrace your quirks.

Ed Sheeran

#95. The more I see God in these relationships with my children, the more I've become aware of how easily we can wall God's presence off from very important areas of our lives.

Ed Cyzewski

#96. Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself.

Dax Shepard

#97. That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.

Ed Markey

#98. The trick is to shift the emphasis in any meeting away from the source of an idea and onto the idea itself.

Ed Catmull

#99. We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are.

Ed Foreman

#100. Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.

Mitch Kapor

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