Top 100 Ernie Quotes
#1. When I think back, I get mad at what they did to those poor men. Ernie must have had PTSD - they called it shell shock - and the doctors told him to keep it all bottled up inside. They didn't know any better, but it was like treating syphilis with candy bars.
Anita Diamant
#2. I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.
John Petrucci
#3. I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.
Charles Barkley
#4. Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.
Charles Barkley
#5. Take Ernie Els. He plays in every country. You see his name everywhere. He's received in different parts of the world. It's a good experience.
Peter Uihlein
#6. I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.
J Mascis
#7. With women, Ernie Holm had some experience at taking no for an answer.
John Irving
#8. My uncle Ernie didn't believe in God.
At least that's what he said. But he always
Went to church on Christmas. Which I thought
Seriously compromised his atheism.
Eugene H. Peterson
#9. Besides," said Teatime, "if you've been coerced, it's not your fault, is it? No one can blame you. No one could blame anyone who'd been coerced at knife point."
"Oh, well, I s'pose, if we're talking coerced ... " Ernie muttered. Going along with things seemed to be the only way.
Terry Pratchett
#10. I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.
Allan Ray
#11. I'm delighted to carry on in the tradition of the great reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Geraldo Rivera to probe vitally important issues of the day, starting with whether I'm Hispanic or Latino.
Al Madrigal
#12. 'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.
Jason Day
#13. I hate Ernie," I reply, still searching. "Actually, I take that back. Hatred requires passion. Ernie isn't worth an ounce of my passion.
Katie Klein
#14. The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today.
Michael Gove
#15. Luckily, Dixie, Ernie, and the two girls, Sissy and Mary Ann, all loved his money. Money was power, no question about it. Sanders remembered how his father used to recite the Golden Rule - he who has the gold makes the rules. And Sanders had the gold. The power. The control. And
Harlan Coben
#16. I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'
Ernest Cline
#17. We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.
Eric Morecambe
#18. Ernie's past friendship. Your debt is to the living.
Jack Schaefer
#19. I have a cousin Ernie who buys stuff. He's got a big snowblower that's actually the biggest snowblower you can buy, with a remote control, so he doesn't even have to go outside. He's got the microwave and a satellite dish, it's all in one. He cooks and watches at the same time.
Louie Anderson
#20. It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing ... Ernie and Pooka seek to understand death and to master their fear of it by domesticating it in the form of the brugmansia.
Dean Koontz
#21. First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the episode gets a little tense when Ernie and Bert ask the first lady why her husband's dragging his feet on gay marriage.
Conan O'Brien
#22. Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
Patrick Ewing
#23. To me, the smarter you are, the more you want to learn - Ernie Accorsi
Pat Williams
#24. Ernie thought - what's the expression? - that he had a couple of kangaroos loose in the top paddock.
Louis Nowra
#25. It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.
Ernest Borgnine
#26. The owners are related to Ernie, and because of our circumstances; they're letting us stay there relatively cheap.
Kristen Middleton
#27. Ernie got it,' I said afterwards. 'His experience taught him that you've got to fight for what's right. It gets you into a lot of trouble but he came to the same conclusion as me.' People think it could never happen here. Don't you believe it; it doesn't take much.
Denis Avey
#28. I'm an affluent screenwriter and all that - I'm a known screenwriter, but I'm not in the fraternity of the very, very major people. I would say a guy like Ernie Lehman, William Goldman, and a few others are quite a cut above.
Rod Serling
#29. I've been to Vulcan where I've been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley's invited me to Castor ... and I'm not looking forward to it.
Ralph Klein
#30. When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebody had made a mistake, and they made an offer that was supposed to be $2,500 for the job, but they offered $25,000. I couldn't turn that down. I'd never heard of anything like that!
Bruce McGill
#31. The kind of cruelty Ernie showed today scares me, reminds me and warns me not to forget what men are capable of. And not even bad men. Just ordinary men. The
Lauren Nicolle Taylor
#32. Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it.
Ernie Els
#33. When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.
Ernie J Zelinski
#34. Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.
Ernie Harwell
#35. With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike.
Ernie Els
#36. What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people accept him and he becomes part of the family.
Ernie Harwell
#37. Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.
Ernie J Zelinski
#38. Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.
Ernie Els
#39. Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.
Ernie J Zelinski
#40. What celebrities hope is that people identify not so much that they're particularly special or different, but they identify with them. We represent life in general, the guy who does whatever.
Ernie Hudson
#41. Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.
Ernie J Zelinski
#42. Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either.
Ernie J Zelinski
#44. Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
Ernie Pyle
#45. Don't Mess Around with Reality and Reality Won't Mess Around with You.
Ernie J Zelinski
#46. I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.
Ernie Harwell
#47. I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
Ernie Pyle
#48. The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
Ernie Isley
#49. The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.
Ernie Pyle
#50. She's either the house mom or the drill sergeant that you eventually like and respect, even after he's removed his size eleven boot from your ass.
Ernie Lindsey
#51. If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
#52. The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.
Ernie Pyle
#53. Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.
Ernie Harwell
#54. There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.
Ernie Pyle
#55. The longer you work, the more money you'll have for retirement. But the longer you work, the less time you'll have to enjoy that retirement. - Wall Street Journal
Ernie J Zelinski
#56. What I get from my study of the Bible is that we're all in Christ, that we're all the same in God's eyes.
Ernie Hudson
#57. According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini, it's also mine. Go ahead; celebrate my birthday and don't worry about the cost!
Ernie J Zelinski
#58. Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN!
Ernie J Zelinski
#59. Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.
Ernie Fletcher
#60. That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.
Ernie Harwell
#62. All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
Ernie Pyle
#63. WHAT IS GREATER THAN GOD, MORE EVIL THAN THE DEVIL? THE POOR HAVE IT. THE RICH NEED IT. AND IF YOU EAT IT, YOU WILL DIE.
Ernie Lindsey
#64. The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.
Ernie J Zelinski
#65. from him doing the same, both men trading verbal
Ernie Lindsey
#66. There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.
Ernie J Zelinski
#67. There are those who spend their lives studying it and those who spend their lives doing it.
Ernie Hudson
#68. The good kind of spin - backspin - comes from hitting the ball cleanly, then making a divot after impact.
Ernie Els
#69. Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.
Ernie Els
#70. The biggest mistake is trying to pinch down on the ball and ripping out a big divot, often hitting the ground before the ball. You'll dig up some turf, but you won't create much backspin.
Ernie Els
#71. People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.
Ernie Banks
#72. Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
Ernie Harwell
#73. After all these years, almost 30 years later, whenever I'm on the street, someone will call out, 'Who you gonna call?'
Ernie Hudson
#74. Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.
Ernie Banks
#75. Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.
Ernie J Zelinski
#76. Grip pressure - not mechanical flaws - is the biggest factor when you're nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you'll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize.
Ernie Els
#77. No, I think the pitching today has more depth.
Ernie Banks
#79. In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.
Ernie Wise
#80. We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
#81. Many people strive for personal freedom throughout their adult lives, and never attain it. First, they become imprisoned a good portion of their lives by their jobs. Then, after they leave the work force, they become imprisoned by retirement.
Ernie J Zelinski
#82. I've got my life. I'm very serious about my business. I've got my family. And I've got my game.
Ernie Els
#83. Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.
Ernie J Zelinski
#85. The key is to hit the ball first, then the sand. Even if you catch it a bit thin, you'll still get plenty of run. Hitting it fat is what you want to avoid.
Ernie Els
#86. Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
Ernie Harwell
#87. Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.
Ernie J Zelinski
#88. you can accomplish more than you think you can. most of your limitations are in your mind.
Ernie J Zelinski
#89. I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
#90. Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.
Ernie J Zelinski
#91. When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
#92. Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.
Ernie J Zelinski
#93. Right before I start the putter back, I think about making solid contact. This brings your attention to the back of the ball and helps keep your head still at impact, which is a must. Many amateurs take a peek down the line too soon, and that can cause all sorts of mis-hits.
Ernie Els
#94. Always feeling rushed is no way for a prosperity-minded individual to live. The objective of life is not to get through it as fast as possible.
Ernie J Zelinski
#95. It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.
Ernie Hudson
#97. Dale Earnhardt's opinion in the garage area is like God's to us.
Ernie Irvan
#98. There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
#99. If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself.
Ernie J Zelinski
#100. You don't have to be long off the tee, and we know the amazing effect an Open crowd can have if you're on your game and how they can lift you.
Ernie Els
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