Top 100 Farley's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.
Farley Mowat
#4. 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
#5. Brothers don't shake hands, brothers gotta HUG!!!
Chris Farley
#6. So many aspects of nature restore the soul, but for me, being on the water is the most cleansing.
Ashley Farley
#8. The waves, the girl in the rain, and that awful, blood-begotten stom. Blood and love and loss.
Terri Farley
#9. 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
#10. Jake's Shoshone black hair had grown long enough that he wore it tied off with leather, once more.
Terri Farley
#11. It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
Farley Mowat
#12. Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.
Chris Farley
#15. 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
#16. To say that God is infinite," wrote A. W. Tozer, "is to say that He is measureless."3
William P. Farley
#17. 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
#18. the most blood thirsty animals in the Artic are not wolves, but the insatiable mosquitoes.
Farley Mowat
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Morning's great that way. You can cry yourself to sleep and wake up wondering what the fuss was over.
Terri Farley
#23. 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
#24. And there was no way to unsay words you'd blurted out, no matter how sorry you were.
Terri Farley
#25. For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.
Melissa Farley
#27. Gwen?"
"Yes."
"You know why we have to be together, don't you?"
" ... "
"I'm your selkie.
Terri Farley
#29. Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.
Christopher John Farley
#30. 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
#31. the free rights of men to destroy themselves through ignorance.
Farley Mowat
#32. 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
#33. Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
Farley Mowat
#34. 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
#35. We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.
Melissa Farley
#36. Some things are not meant to disappear until their purpose has been met.
Christina Farley
#37. As if I were a dog, to follow at your heels.
Terri Farley
#38. 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
#39. Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
Farley Mowat
#40. If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
Farley Mowat
#41. 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
#43. 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
#44. The highbrow/lowbrow schizophrenia of Twitter never stops amazing me. It's the Chris Farley of technologies.
Christian Rudder
#45. Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.
Melissa Farley
#46. Dedicated to all boys and girls who love horses but never have had one of their own
Walter Farley
#47. In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.
Chris Farley
#48. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective
Farley Maglaya
#56. Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.
Farley Mowat
#57. Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.
James Farley
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
Farley Mowat
#62. -We're criminals, Farley. We believe in money-and survival.
Victoria Aveyard
#63. Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.
Wendy Farley
#64. We can never see what we never question, for we who escapes, blinds us
Farley Maglaya
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. You've never in your life seen a horse run so fast! He's all power-all beauty.
Walter Farley
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.
Farley Mowat
#78. Peregrine Falcon This is a large falcon about the size of a crow.
Mark Farley
#79. Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.
Walter Farley
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Beckon The Sea, I'll Come To The ... Shed Seven Tears, Perchance Seven Years ...
Terri Farley
#83. The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.
Christina Farley
#84. Courtship? Had I said courtship? What did I think, that this was Jane freakin' Eyre?
Terri Farley
#85. We are given moments, and we must choose what to do with them. This is your moment.
Christina Farley
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.
Terri Farley
#90. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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.
#94. The frozen fish were later put in deep holes in the moss and covered over to keep until they were needed.
Farley Mowat
#95. Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
Farley Mowat
#96. Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions ...
Farley Mowat
#97. 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
#98. First off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river.
Chris Farley
#99. The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.
Chris Farley
#100. I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
Farley Mowat
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