Fred Quotes

#1. Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. - Author: Fred Upton

#2. One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the undertaker! - Author: Fred Dibnah

#3. You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong. - Author: Fred Hollows

#4. When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me. - Author: Fred Rogers

#5. Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe. - Author: Fred Kavli

#6. At bottom, I'm a cheerful person. - Author: Fred D'Aguiar

#7. I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows. And so, if you want to be in front of the largest number of users, you need to be on Android. - Author: Fred Wilson

#8. The Bible is a novel that's crazy ... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification. - Author: Fred Hammond

#9. No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers. - Author: David Hallberg

#10. I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you. - Author: J.K. Rowling

#11. Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work. - Author: Fred Couples

#12. Morris Halle was already working on a generative phonology of Russian in the 1950s, and we also worked together on the generative phonology of English, at first jointly with Fred Lukoff. - Author: Noam Chomsky

#13. When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. - Author: Fred Rogers

#14. When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies evenly to everyone in the business. - Author: Fred DeLuca

#15. And I became fixated, too, upon Katharine Hepburn's famous Fred and Ginger theory: He gives her class, she gives him sex. Was this a general rule? Did all friendships - all relations - involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power? - Author: Zadie Smith

#16. I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one. - Author: Fred Nicole

#17. The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon. - Author: Fred Lebow

#18. If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into. - Author: Fred Frith

#19. Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time. - Author: Eileen Myles

#20. During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be fair, he wants to take your silverware and spread it around. - Author: Fred Thompson

#21. Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions. - Author: Fred D'Aguiar

#22. Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.] - Author: Fred Hoyle

#23. I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close. - Author: Fred Armisen

#24. When those who know are able to show, those who learn are able to grow. - Author: Mark Sanborn

#25. The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn. - Author: Fred D'Aguiar

#26. It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is. - Author: Fred Savage

#27. If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman. - Author: Fred L. Turner

#28. Life is what you do while you're waiting to die ... Life is how the time goes by - Author: Fred Ebb

#29. Fred!" the nurse said, though they had never met. "How are we today?" Reading the nurse's name tag, Mr. Bennet replied with fake enthusiasm, "Bernard! We're mourning the death of manners and the rise of overly familiar discourse. How are you? - Author: Curtis Sittenfeld

#30. You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel. - Author: Fred Alan Wolf

#31. I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling. - Author: Fred D'Aguiar

#32. I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is. - Author: Fred Vargas

#33. Life cannot have had a random beginning ... The trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10^40,000, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. - Author: Fred Hoyle

#34. The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind - Author: Fred Bear

#35. Its okay Ginny. Don't be upset. We'll send you a toilet seat or something. Fred and George said to Ginny - Author: J.K. Rowling

#36. Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. - Author: Fred Rogers

#37. Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out. - Author: Fred Hoyle

#38. Games are the most social of all things on the web. - Author: Fred Wilson

#39. I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it. - Author: Fred Durst

#40. Try to be a happy memory for your friends. - Author: Fred Smith

#41. Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little. - Author: Fred Schwed Jr.

#42. There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock. - Author: Fred Tomaselli

#43. It is our continuing love for our children that makes us want them to become all they can be, and their continuing love for us that helps them accept healthy discipline
from us and eventually from themselves. - Author: Fred Rogers

#44. They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are. Fred said. But our healing
that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game. - Author: Richard Wagamese

#45. If your bigs rim run at full speed it not only increases the potential for a quick layup, but opens up court for guards - Author: Fred Hoiberg

#46. There's a certain kind of time that's metronomic, that's correct, but doesn't want you want to dance. It doesn't make you want to move, and it doesn't make you want to play. - Author: Fred Hersch

#47. The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success - Author: Fred Wilson

#48. I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'. - Author: Fred Armisen

#49. Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it. - Author: Fred Saberhagen

#50. Did you know the following surprising facts? "Surgery has been found to be helpful in only 1 in 100 cases of low back pain. - Author: Fred Amir

#51. As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by. - Author: Fred Ward

#52. Don't forget that in pushing policemen into duck ponds the follow through is everything. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#53. The shamanic realm is to get you out of the word set. For skeptics, that's impossible, and they just can't see that and it just makes no sense. - Author: Fred Alan Wolf

#54. Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. - Author: Fred Allen

#55. I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life. - Author: Fred Kavli

#56. I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle. - Author: Fred Hampton

#57. The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them. - Author: Fred Savage

#58. Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it. - Author: Fred Rogers

#59. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges. - Author: Fred Rogers

#60. While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda. - Author: Fred W. Friendly

#61. I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers. - Author: Fred Hoyle

#62. I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel. - Author: Fred Couples

#63. We would rather be anywhere, as long as we are somewhere. We would rather be anyone, as long as we are someone. - Author: Fred Wah

#64. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. - Author: Fred Astaire

#65. I am but a small shard in a grand mosaic. - Author: Fred Crane

#66. To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope. - Author: Fred Rogers

#67. Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion. - Author: Fred Barnes

#68. It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do! - Author: Fred Rogers

#69. Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. - Author: Fred G. Gosman

#70. Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. - Author: Fred Wilson

#71. To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility. - Author: Fred Alan Wolf

#72. You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable. - Author: Fred Rogers

#73. Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor. - Author: Fred Shero

#74. Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence. - Author: Ronnie Barker

#75. If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach. - Author: Fred B. Craddock

#76. In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred. - Author: Fred Rogers

#77. You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better? - Author: Gail Collins

#78. I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are. - Author: Fred Eaglesmith

#79. I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I asked him when I first got there if I should start reading up on things. But he said, 'No, I think you can just start these experiments,' so I plunged right in. - Author: Elizabeth Blackburn

#80. And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC. - Author: Fred Thompson

#81. The franchisees are uniquely in touch at the local level. They see what's going on in their communities in a way we couldn't ever imagine. - Author: Fred DeLuca

#82. I lived in Chicago, but the music I was inspired by was from D. C. - Author: Fred Armisen

#83. I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given. - Author: Fred Rogers

#84. Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out. - Author: Fred Reed

#85. When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on". - Author: Fred Rogers

#86. Attitudes are caught, not taught. - Author: Fred Rogers

#87. The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. - Author: Fred Allen

#88. We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business. - Author: Fred L. Turner

#89. The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful. - Author: Fred Wilson

#90. I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it. - Author: Fred Couples

#91. Children leave ... and parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father ... And he will always leave a light on for you. - Author: Fred Savage

#92. If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. my grandpa - Author: Fred Scott

#93. When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by. - Author: Fred Durst

#94. My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back. - Author: Fred Allen

#95. A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt. - Author: Fred Bear

#96. I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them. - Author: Fred Willard

#97. You can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work. - Author: Fred Richmond

#98. I know the pundits, they get big bucks for ... pundating. - Author: Fred Thompson

#99. Wine still tastes for me of the mountaintop of piny woods with a warm spring dawn coming on, and that Spanishy word, Sonoma, is an exotic flavor all to itself. - Author: Fred Chappell

#100. If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years. - Author: Fred Bodsworth