Top 100 Foley's Quotes
#1. Sure, there were people from Missouri and Illinois who grew up Cardinals fans and migrated to New York for work or love. Cardinals fans congregate periodically at Foley's near Herald Square to root for the team of their childhood, up there on the TV screen.
George Vecsey
#2. Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.
Joe Rogan
#3. I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.
Dave Foley
#4. The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.
Dave Foley
#5. And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'
Dave Foley
#6. I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now.
Dave Foley
#7. Do youmind?" she clipped out suddenly with a fine, cultured accent like frosted glass.
His gaze flicked up from her chest to her blazing eyes. "So, you can talk."
"Obviously."
"Too bad," he drawled. "I thought I just found the perfect woman.
Gaelen Foley
#8. Max - " ... Do me a favor, if the constable comes knocking, tell him I was here all morning, will you?"
Dodsley - "Killed someone again, did we?"
Max- "Never before luncheon, Dodsley. It's still early yet.
Gaelen Foley
#9. Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start.
Dru Anderson: I don't want to deal with it today.
Graves: Okay. I know a place to go. You shoot pool? I'm Graves.
Dru Anderson: I know. Dru.
Graves: Dru. You're new. Couple of weeks, right? Welcome to Foley.
Lilith Saintcrow
#10. No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.
Andrew Natsios
#11. Night thoughts aren't to be trusted.
Rae Foley
#12. The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it
Will Foley
#14. Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
Tim Foley
#15. And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.
Mel Tillis
#16. Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.
Dave Foley
#17. There was a time when all I could tell you was that the wine was wet. When I grew older, I learned to describe its taste.
Terry Foley
#18. There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.
Rae Foley
#19. The internet is a dark, dark place. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere, someone has this file that says, "Scott Foley, on March 13, 2012, was searching for how to dispose of a body for 48 hours."
Scott Foley
#20. In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.
Dave Foley
#21. Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.
Mark Foley
#22. NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.
Dave Foley
#23. Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.
Mark Foley
#24. Proust is famous for his rhapsodies on hawthorns but his book has only three of these, whereas there are thirteen scenes in brothels, one especially detailed episode running to more than forty pages. Few critics mention the brothels but they are more fun than the hawthorns.
Michael Foley
#25. It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.
Michael Foley
#26. The gulf coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production in the gulf was shut down and not producing.
Mark Foley
#27. I pat the brand new twenty-seven inch Macintosh computers Mr. Foley brought us. 'These boxes alone should make both of us scream like it's Christmas morning! Snap out of it. Santa came! Now we get to play with all of our toys!
Anne Eliot
#28. It must be very hard to be a mother. All those years of knowing everything about your daughter, of dressing her and bathing her and being intimately acquainted with her every need and want, and then one day you wake up and realize you don't even know what kind of dress to buy her at Clery's.
Jessie Ann Foley
#29. Lucien?"
"Yes, Alice?"
Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him - unpredictable, dangerous as he was. "I think it's real.
Gaelen Foley
#30. Really, it's only been since the '70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country.
Dave Foley
#31. The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it ... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad.
Scott Foley
#32. There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.
Dave Foley
#33. I never watched 'Harper's Island.'
Dave Foley
#34. There's more to everything that what's obvious," he always said. "You just have to look for it.
D.J. MacHale
#35. The editing process, for me, is both the most fun and the most frustrating. It's the most fun because you get to see it actually piece together. But if one thing is off, it can be frustrating trying to figure out exactly what it is that's bumping you, so you try a hundred different things.
Scott Foley
#36. The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.
Mark Foley
#37. If you pretend
that LIFE is
exciting,
it will be.
That's
just how our
hearts
work.
Kay Foley
#38. The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example ... Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness.
John Foley
#39. As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.
Scott Foley
#40. When I think of all the things that tossed my journey off its track, I realize something incredibly important: Life's setbacks only changed my path and the timing of my arrival. They never changed my destination.
John Foley
#41. Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.
Elizabeth Price Foley
#43. The whole world is dangerous. That's why I'm going to learn self-defense.
Jamie Foley
#44. We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else.
Mark Foley
#45. If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go around town even in Columbus and see a bunch of people in Michigan shirts ... And that's horrible, isn't it?.
Dave Foley
#46. The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that."
Tim Foley
#47. The rain still drummed on the roof, like fine needles striking the shingles. The family sat silently around the table, each one wrapped in their own thoughts.
It was Matthew's voice that broke the silence, asking, "And what happened after that?"
"After that," said Paul, "came Gettysburg.
Elisabeth Grace Foley
#48. That's what living people do. They shatter and rebuild, shatter and rebuild, shatter and rebuild until they are old and worn and stooped from the work of it.
Jessie Ann Foley
#49. But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.
Michael Foley
#50. If others think I am nuts, naive, gullible, and not living in the real world, that's all right, too... I'll gladly stay in what some have called my fictitious world, my happy and peaceful world, a world full of signs of hope.
Ward Foley
#51. If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.
Thomas S. Foley
#52. I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.
Dave Foley
#53. By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.
Mark Foley
#54. The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.
Rae Foley
#55. I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.
Mark Foley
#56. I try to make the best of what I have as life is short
Foley Western
#57. Look! I can't even wear glasses because my ear is missing. I'm hardcore! I'm hardcore!
Mick Foley
#58. The Bright Young People. The press love and hate them - they celebrate them, they vilify them, and they know full well that they would not shift nearly so many papers without them.
Lucy Foley
#59. Systems are made by players rather than players making systems
Theo Foley
#60. Looking around, from near the top of Foley Mountain, it was easy to imagine why the early settlers decided to make their home in Westport.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#61. You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical," he went on. "I told you I am eager to further our acquaintance. I want to know what you think about things. What you want out of life. What you dream.
-Lucien to Alice
Gaelen Foley
#62. Everything that ever happens to you only happens once, so you better never stop paying attention.
Jessie Ann Foley
#63. However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.
Michael Foley
#65. By the time the clock had moved past midnight on Christmas 1993, they finally clicked the last piece into place: Angola, nestled between Zaire and Namibia and bordering the vast lapping Atlantic. Then, having succeeded in putting the world back together, they went to bed.
Jessie Ann Foley
#66. The perfect servant is the one who attends to all the master's whims - anyone can do that - but the one who anticipates the whims.
Michael Foley
#67. I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up the arse!
Anthony Foley
#68. Our souls need music, Robert, as our bodies need touch.
Gaelen Foley
#69. And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.
Michael Foley
#70. In sex women are largely guided by their sensible bodies but men are driven crazy by their feverish minds. Men love to think and talk about sex; women enjoy it while it lasts, if they can, and have little interest in pre-match build-up or post-match analysis.
Michael Foley
#71. As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the inferior.
Michael Foley
#72. Humility is always one play away.
Tim Foley
#73. David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.
Terry Southern
#74. I mean, 'Kids In The Hall' is the reason I have any career at all.
Dave Foley
#75. I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.
Scott Foley
#76. On the 8th day, God created Mankind. Why was he having such a bad day? Why did he create all of you normal ... but forget so many important parts of me?
Mick Foley
#77. Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled
Michael Foley
#78. David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.
Dave Foley
#79. I like the sitcom, as a structure.
Dave Foley
#80. Welcome to Anaheim, California, my fellow broken-down, washed-up wrestler.
Mick Foley
#81. The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.
Mark Foley
#82. Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.
Rae Foley
#83. People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.
Rae Foley
#84. Life and all that is in it
is a gift from the infinite mind;
And the only way that life can go wrong
is by the limited finite mind.
Eric Foley Saucier
#85. The Player Character Sheet is a psychic osmotic membrane.
Tod Foley
#86. When you care for someone, you don't ruin their life!
Gaelen Foley
#87. When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
Dave Foley
#88. There are people who follow me on Twitter and tell me how much they don't like me, how much they don't want me on the show, and that they hope I die. And it's not just about the character. They tell me how they've never liked Scott Foley, and that he's a stupid, white, plain-bread looking fool.
Scott Foley
#89. If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good.
Dave Foley
#90. Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.
Michael Foley
#91. Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments.
Margaret Foley
#92. I really like it. I really, really like it. Ah, ah, ah, ah ... buried alive ... buried alive.
Mick Foley
#93. Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.
Ian Gomez
#94. Once you have discovered the physical facts of a situation, all that remains - no matter how improbable - is more interesting.
Tod Foley
#95. Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.
Gaelen Foley
#96. Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.
Elizabeth Price Foley
#97. Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.
Dave Foley
#98. I learned that the true purpose of working with a horse at liberty in a round pen is simply this: to capture his attention and get him interested in you.
Sharon Foley
#99. Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.
Rae Foley
#100. The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.
Michael Foley
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