Top 100 Farley Quotes
#1. I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.
Paul Watson
#2. -We're criminals, Farley. We believe in money-and survival.
Victoria Aveyard
#4. I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'
Chris Farley
#5. Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.
Jaimie Alexander
#6. Here in America either it's Faunia Farley or it's Monica Lewinsky! The luxury of these lives disquieted so by the inappropriate comportment of Clinton and Silk!
Philip Roth
#7. I've watched a lot of my friends die, everyone from John Belushi, River Phoenix to Chris Farley. It just keeps going on and on.
Willie Aames
#8. I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry.
Andy Dick
#9. The highbrow/lowbrow schizophrenia of Twitter never stops amazing me. It's the Chris Farley of technologies.
Christian Rudder
#10. Don't cry in front of Mom, apologize to Farley, figure out how to save five thousand children, nanny a bunch of Silvers, put my head through a wall. Seems doable. The
Victoria Aveyard
#11. To put it in somewhat drastic terms, Cambridge in the thirties was characterised by two things: a craze for communism and a craze for homosexuality.
"Rubbish!" Farley said.
"Well, you're bound to have been busy with other things as well, like drunkenness, geometry and Shakespeare.
David Lagercrantz
#12. They call him the Colonel, and he's Farley's father." "I'd feel sorry for her, but my family's infinitely worse." I
Victoria Aveyard
#13. What do you do with the kid who can't read? ... Well, what he did with the kid who couldn't read was to make her his mistress. What Farley did was to make her his punching bag. What the Cuban did was to make her his whore, or one among them
so Coleman believed more often than not.
Philip Roth
#14. I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.
David Steinberg
#15. I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann.
Andy Dick
#16. After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
Gene Siskel
#17. We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
Farley Mowat
#18. Each time that we respond unmercifully, our malevolence reveals our lack of faith. If we believe that Jesus will set all things right in the end from his great white throne of judgment then we can be merciful and respond with mercy.
Jason Farley
#19. I will take any liberty I want with facts as long as I don't trespass on the truth ... We confuse facts with truth.
Farley Mowat
#21. If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.
James Farley
#22. You've never in your life seen a horse run so fast! He's all power-all beauty.
Walter Farley
#23. You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running.
Terri Farley
#24. We've got a war about to be unleashed here-one that I'm going to die for. One where you and I are an impossibility. So I don't get to tell you that I love you. And you don't get to look at me like that. - Daniel
Frankie Rose
#25. The end comes to all of us ... but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?
Christopher John Farley
#26. I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.
Chris Farley
#27. I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work ... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.
Chris Farley
#28. We can never see what we never question, for we who escapes, blinds us
Farley Maglaya
#29. Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.
Wendy Farley
#30. I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
Farley Mowat
#31. I can get a great look at a t-bone steak by shoving my head up a bull's ass but I'd rather take the butchers word for it.
Chris Farley
#32. The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.
James Farley
#33. I write better in Cape Breton ... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
Farley Mowat
#34. Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.
James Farley
#35. Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.
Farley Mowat
#36. Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective
Farley Maglaya
#37. Dad and Gram didn't take a single day on the ranch for granted. Regardless of the weather, the greeted each morning as if they'd embrace it, filling their eyes with a vaulting sky and sagebrush-coverd ridges. Then they gave silent prayer of thanks for living the life they loved.
Terri Farley
#38. People ... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'
Chris Farley
#39. Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.
Walter Farley
#40. I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
Farley Mowat
#41. The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.
Chris Farley
#42. First off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river.
Chris Farley
#43. Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away
Farley Mowat
#44. Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions ...
Farley Mowat
#45. Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
Farley Mowat
#46. The frozen fish were later put in deep holes in the moss and covered over to keep until they were needed.
Farley Mowat
#47. BOB ODENKIRK: I didn't like the fact that the first thing he became known for was that Chippendales thing, which I hated. Fucking lame, weak bullshit. I can't believe anyone liked it enough to put it on the show. Fuck that sketch. He never should have done it.
Tom Farley Jr.
#48. Indeed, there is a school of thought that any work on a branch is, in the lean sense, waste - inventory that is not being pulled into the finished product.
David Farley
#49. Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.
Farley Mowat
#50. Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.
Terri Farley
#51. I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
Farley Mowat
#52. We are given moments, and we must choose what to do with them. This is your moment.
Christina Farley
#53. Courtship? Had I said courtship? What did I think, that this was Jane freakin' Eyre?
Terri Farley
#54. The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.
Christina Farley
#55. Beckon The Sea, I'll Come To The ... Shed Seven Tears, Perchance Seven Years ...
Terri Farley
#56. Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.
Melissa Farley
#57. It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.
Terri Farley
#58. Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.
Walter Farley
#59. Peregrine Falcon This is a large falcon about the size of a crow.
Mark Farley
#61. If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
Farley Mowat
#63. For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.
Melissa Farley
#64. And there was no way to unsay words you'd blurted out, no matter how sorry you were.
Terri Farley
#65. Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.
Farley Mowat
#66. Morning's great that way. You can cry yourself to sleep and wake up wondering what the fuss was over.
Terri Farley
#67. We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and even among young ladies in search of a husband.
James Farley
#69. the most blood thirsty animals in the Artic are not wolves, but the insatiable mosquitoes.
Farley Mowat
#70. I took Miss Stanwyck home and had a great time listening to her dish the party and everyone there. We went in for a nightcap, and I ended up spending the night. We enjoyed each other's company to the fullest.
Farley Granger
#71. To say that God is infinite," wrote A. W. Tozer, "is to say that He is measureless."3
William P. Farley
#72. And what do I smell like?"
"Like arrogance and self-adoration," she snapped. "I can smell it a mile off.Why bother saying you didn't help me when it could only have been you?
Frankie Rose
#75. Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.
Chris Farley
#76. It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
Farley Mowat
#77. Jake's Shoshone black hair had grown long enough that he wore it tied off with leather, once more.
Terri Farley
#78. The waves, the girl in the rain, and that awful, blood-begotten stom. Blood and love and loss.
Terri Farley
#80. So many aspects of nature restore the soul, but for me, being on the water is the most cleansing.
Ashley Farley
#81. Brothers don't shake hands, brothers gotta HUG!!!
Chris Farley
#82. Typical Cowboy,"she muttered. "The world could be coming to an end and you wouldn't go outside to watch without your hat." ...
"You got that right.
Terri Farley
#83. On his office wall he had a note to himself: 'Money is necessary
but it isn't too important.' Money meant for him to keep on writing and to go his own way.
Walter Farley
#84. After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.
Farley Mowat
#85. The Black was looking out on the open sea; his ears pricked forward, his thin-skinned nostrils quivering, his black mane flowing like windswept flame. Alec could not turn his eyes away; he could not believe such a perfect creature existed.
Walter Farley
#87. Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.
Wendy Farley
#88. In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.
Chris Farley
#89. Dedicated to all boys and girls who love horses but never have had one of their own
Walter Farley
#90. Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.
Melissa Farley
#92. Gwen?"
"Yes."
"You know why we have to be together, don't you?"
" ... "
"I'm your selkie.
Terri Farley
#93. Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
Farley Mowat
#94. When I was a little girl, my favorite television show starred Roy Rogers and Dale Evans- the queen of the cowgirls." Mrs. Coley explained. "Dale wore a fancy fringed leather skirt and rode a buckskin horse named Buttermilk ...
"Thank heavens for Dale Evans," she said with a sigh.
Terri Farley
#95. As if I were a dog, to follow at your heels.
Terri Farley
#96. Some things are not meant to disappear until their purpose has been met.
Christina Farley
#97. We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.
Melissa Farley
#98. Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.
Christopher John Farley
#99. Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
Farley Mowat
#100. As the Siberian saying goes: One hundred versts (roughly a hundred miles) is no distance. A hundred rubles isn't worthwhile money. And a hundred grams of vodka just makes you thirsty.
Farley Mowat
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