Excitable Boy Quotes

#1. Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.

Warren Zevon

#2. Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Al Neuharth

#3. I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

Alex Kapranos

#4. Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

Geoffrey Beene

#5. If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

Immanuel Kant

#6. It's the reason we become enamored of certain singers, I think, because they project the voice we wish to summon within ourselves. His

Steve Almond

#7. I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.

Nicholas Stoller

#8. My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

Jonathan Rottenberg

#9. Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

James Dobson

#10. We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

Abraham Flexner

#11. Make an offer they can't refuse.

John Caples

#12. Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

George Jones

#13. Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

Vera Farmiga

#14. 216 hours . . . of feeling dead. 12,960 minutes . . . of feeling lost. 777,600 seconds . . . of feeling completely numb.

Gail McHugh

#15. Mystery keeps man alive; it opens his ears, his eyes, and his mind! Find a mystery and try to solve it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan