Top 100 Fred's Quotes

#1. 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.

Ronnie Barker

Fred's Quotes #4443
#2. If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.

Larry Kramer

Fred's Quotes #457129
#3. And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

J.K. Rowling

Fred's Quotes #470338
#4. He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing.

Jim Hill

Fred's Quotes #631247
#5. The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.

John Scalzi

Fred's Quotes #673240
#6. Fred's vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point.

James S.A. Corey

Fred's Quotes #789440
#7. One day, when he was naughty, Mr. Bunnsy looked over the hedge into Farmer Fred's field and saw it was full of fresh green lettuces. Mr. Bunnsy, however, was not full of lettuces. This did not seem fair.

Terry Pratchett

Fred's Quotes #927675
#8. I started my career in a town so small the local clinic was called Fred's Hospital and Grill.

Joan Rivers

Fred's Quotes #1006065
#9. What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?"
"Oh no, Ron," came Fred's voice, very sarcastically. "No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

J.K. Rowling

Fred's Quotes #1254553
#10. I love people and psychology. As a writer, I'm not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to go inside Fred's soul and play there.

Dorianne Laux

Fred's Quotes #1457716
#11. The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Fred Wilson

Fred's Quotes #2562
#12. 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!

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #10709
#13. 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.

Fred Ward

Fred's Quotes #12666
#14. 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.

Fred W. Friendly

Fred's Quotes #15599
#15. 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.

Fred Savage

Fred's Quotes #17151
#16. 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.

Fred Alan Wolf

Fred's Quotes #19647
#17. 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.

Fred Durst

Fred's Quotes #28604
#18. 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.

Fred Couples

Fred's Quotes #29930
#19. 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".

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #32224
#20. 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.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #33670
#21. 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.

Fred DeLuca

Fred's Quotes #38491
#22. 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.

Fred Thompson

Fred's Quotes #39248
#23. 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?

Gail Collins

Fred's Quotes #46786
#24. 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?

Zadie Smith

Fred's Quotes #60753
#25. 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.

Fred Upton

Fred's Quotes #60847
#26. 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.

Fred Couples

Fred's Quotes #65706
#27. The Bible is a novel that's crazy ... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.

Fred Hammond

Fred's Quotes #69683
#28. One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the undertaker!

Fred Dibnah

Fred's Quotes #78523
#29. 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.

Fred Saberhagen

Fred's Quotes #79103
#30. 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.

Fred Hersch

Fred's Quotes #83020
#31. 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.

Richard Wagamese

Fred's Quotes #85001
#32. There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

Fred Tomaselli

Fred's Quotes #88915
#33. 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.

Fred Schwed Jr.

Fred's Quotes #89291
#34. It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is.

Fred Savage

Fred's Quotes #90921
#35. 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?

Curtis Sittenfeld

Fred's Quotes #97405
#36. I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

Fred W. Friendly

Fred's Quotes #102521
#37. When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #128895
#38. When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That's an important thing for our children to learn.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #131145
#39. Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

Fred Upton

Fred's Quotes #131238
#40. Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

Fred Brooks

Fred's Quotes #134106
#41. I tell you, my friends, it's a sin to pray for the U.S.A. And nobody that's intelligent, and that fears God, will fly the American flag any way but upside-down, the international signal of distress ... It's too late to pray for the U.S.A.

Fred Phelps

Fred's Quotes #142010
#42. That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another

Fred Trueman

Fred's Quotes #143706
#43. China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.

Fred Thompson

Fred's Quotes #147342
#44. The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society's image is positive and flourishing, the flower of culture is in full bloom. Once the image begins to decay and lose its vitality, however, the culture does not long survive

Fred Polak

Fred's Quotes #147389
#45. When it all comes true Just the way you planned It's funny but the bells don't ring It's a quiet thing.

Fred Ebb

Fred's Quotes #147421
#46. I want the right to outbid anyone else who tries to hire you. No contracts without my counteroffer." Holden held out his hand, and Fred shook it.

James S.A. Corey

Fred's Quotes #152990
#47. I haven't got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even," said Fred, looking over at Ron's crumpled figure. "Mind you ... when he missed the fourteenth ... "
He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle.
"Well, I'll save it for parties, eh?

J.K. Rowling

Fred's Quotes #153819
#48. Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?"
Doug: "Only in my dreams."
Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred."
Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all fairness though that Christy's boyfriend is my best friend. He's the brick wall you should be worried about.

Robin Jones Gunn

Fred's Quotes #158188
#49. Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.

Fred Nicole

Fred's Quotes #162101
#50. I don't think there's an archetype for the Justin Bieber fan. A Bieber fan just looks like an American. You wouldn't even need a costume to try and resemble one.

Fred Armisen

Fred's Quotes #164166
#51. Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Fred Wilson

Fred's Quotes #166856
#52. Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.

Fred Ritchin

Fred's Quotes #171595
#53. So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-"
"No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.

J.K. Rowling

Fred's Quotes #171700
#54. There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #173095
#55. Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!

Cher

Fred's Quotes #173583
#56. There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

Fred Alan Wolf

Fred's Quotes #173949
#57. England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country

Fred Trueman

Fred's Quotes #189491
#58. It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #190282
#59. There's only one head bigger than Tony Greig's - and that's Birkenhead

Fred Trueman

Fred's Quotes #194651
#60. Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

Fred Durst

Fred's Quotes #196108
#61. I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.

Fred Wilson

Fred's Quotes #197639
#62. A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing.

Fred DeLuca

Fred's Quotes #197832
#63. In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.

Fred Hampton

Fred's Quotes #200172
#64. There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

Fred Thompson

Fred's Quotes #202270
#65. Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Fred Hoyle

Fred's Quotes #205744
#66. There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

Fred Saberhagen

Fred's Quotes #206627
#67. Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.

Fred Reed

Fred's Quotes #210611
#68. Where are you, Fred? Because it's cold. There's snow in the wind.

Truman Capote

Fred's Quotes #210984
#69. All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors - in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #234620
#70. My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.

Fred Funk

Fred's Quotes #235360
#71. But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

Fred F. Fielding

Fred's Quotes #240316
#72. There were too many things suddenly that I didn't understand, and I didn't know what to do about it. I knew that I needed to be older, but that's not enough. You have to have some basic information that was not yet available to me.

Fred Chappell

Fred's Quotes #249724
#73. I always see celebs in very weird spots. I don't always go to fancy-shmancy places, but I see celebs at coffee shops or random stores, when you're looking for a sweater and turn around like, 'OMG, that's Fred Savage!'

Ross Mathews

Fred's Quotes #259173
#74. I tell everybody there are only three things that we do. We build sales at the store level, we build profits at the store level, and we build more stores. The first two things go in tandem, of course. It's pretty tough to build profits without sales.

Fred DeLuca

Fred's Quotes #264507
#75. Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Fred Saberhagen

Fred's Quotes #267878
#76. I think a lot of psychological healing tends to work on that basis. We go into the unconscious to find what's holding you back, so to speak, and I think there is an unconscious body image that may be responsible for the unhealing that's taking place.

Fred Alan Wolf

Fred's Quotes #271351
#77. I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

Fred Hampton

Fred's Quotes #276984
#78. Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the cycle.

Fred Seibert

Fred's Quotes #278547
#79. I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.

Fred Korematsu

Fred's Quotes #278690
#80. Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all.

Fred Dryer

Fred's Quotes #279384
#81. You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things ... I just go, That's just fabulous.

Fred Eaglesmith

Fred's Quotes #284408
#82. Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

Fred Wilson

Fred's Quotes #285468
#83. When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

Fred Durst

Fred's Quotes #290743
#84. Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #294015
#85. I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.

Robert Palmer

Fred's Quotes #299671
#86. In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Fred's Quotes #305201
#87. When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.

Fred DeLuca

Fred's Quotes #310388
#88. Augusta is a very unique golf course. It's a long hitters' course; main reason is because the greens are so severe, and the areas where they put the pin is such a small area. The little plateaus and undulations mean it's incredibly important to be close to that pin so you can be aggressive.

Fred Funk

Fred's Quotes #310846
#89. It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #311845
#90. The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

Fred Alan Wolf

Fred's Quotes #319976
#91. Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #320946
#92. Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #322351
#93. I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting and sequencing.

Richard J. Roberts

Fred's Quotes #323751
#94. I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

Fred Melamed

Fred's Quotes #334813
#95. You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #336351
#96. It is madness to come to country houses without one's bottle of Mickey Finns.

P.G. Wodehouse

Fred's Quotes #337175
#97. It's very important, no matter what you may do professionally, to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.

Fred Rogers

Fred's Quotes #340453
#98. Frankl discovered that a human being's fundamental dignity lies in his capacity to choose his response to any situation - his response-ability.

Fred Kofman

Fred's Quotes #348762
#99. When I get married,' said Fred, tugging at the collar of his own robes. 'I won't be bothering with any of this nonsense. You can all wear what you like and I'll put a full body-bind curse on mum until it's over.

J.K. Rowling

Fred's Quotes #350358
#100. My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

Fred Durst

Fred's Quotes #351305

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