Top 100 Gerry Quotes
#1. It's a common enough psych term," I told him. "All of us shrinks talk about VFC when we get together. Very fucking crazy, Gerry.
James Patterson
#2. Aren't you going to insist that we pray, Gerry?' the Captain asked as he took a bite. 'This food doesn't deserve to be blessed,' the Doctor responded grimly, 'but if it makes you feel any better, I already prayed.
J Grace Pennington
#3. The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.
Martin McGuinness
#4. He'd been expelled from the movement by Gerry Adams in 1985 for threatening to initiate a campaign of murder that would have hampered the new political strategy. It was a bit like being kicked out of the Gestapo for cruelty.
Andy McNab
#5. I will never sit down with Gerry Adams ... he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does sit down with the devil.
Ian Paisley
#6. It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.
Larry Holmes
#7. I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry. When we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.
Benjamin Harrison
#8. His wife, Gerry, was a truly stunning blonde in her middle twenties, tall and gracious, but with eyes just a little cold to match a smile so warm and welcoming.
John D. MacDonald
#9. In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
Pete McCloskey
#10. There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.
Chuck Mangione
#11. People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner ... I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman.
Gabor Szabo
#12. Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
Carla Bley
#13. If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
Barry McGuigan
#14. For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.
Charlie Watts
#15. Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?'
'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.'
'The city still has working phone booths?'
'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.
Kate Morton
#16. Then Gerry heard through his helmet radio the two most dreaded words any crew never wanted to hear during a space mission; Oh sh*t
Scott Mackay
#17. I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
H. G. Bissinger
#18. If Gerry were dying of thirst and spotted Alex two feet from a well, he still would not think he required his younger brother's help. It simply would never occur to him that Alex might be able to provide it.
Meredith Duran
#19. One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
Vincent Bugliosi
#20. Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#21. I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
David Bowie
#22. I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#23. Isn't it strange how often your butt gets all the instructions?" Gerry said conversationally to Mason, "Mine gets hustled all over the place, it's quite the social butterfly.
Rolf
#24. I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought th fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.
Larry Holmes
#25. Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.
Michael Chiarello
#26. People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.
Greta Van Susteren
#27. The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.
Geraldine Ferraro
#28. Gerry Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top.
Bob Hope
#29. Gerry Lopez was a famous surfer back then and his board had a lightning bolt in the in the middle, so my Dad made me a surf/skateboard with a lightning bolt on it.
Christian Hosoi
#30. To Jaden, Kenneth, Stanley, Pedro, Tyler, Edwin, Samuel, Taishan, Gerry and Justin. For who you were and who you might have been.
Gary Younge
#32. The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.
Rob Sheffield
#33. It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded.
Bob Hope
#34. GERRY
I would step on your face!
HACKENSACKER
That's quite all right, I rather enjoyed it.
GERRY
Twice!
HACKENSACKER
You made quite an impression.
Preston Sturges
#35. We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.
Bill Crow
#36. Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.
Gerry Cooney
#37. At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
Gerry Adams
#38. It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.
Gerry Adams
#39. Set a master goal for your running and for your life.
Gerry Lindgren
#40. Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
Gerry Mulligan
#41. I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.
Gerry Geek
#42. Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!
Gerry Lindgren
#43. If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.
Gerry Beckley
#44. As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.
Gerry Spence
#45. I think I'm getting wealthy in ways that don't count at the bank.
Gerry Lopez
#46. The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.
Gerry Spence
#47. There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion.
Gerry Lindgren
#48. You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
Gerry Mulligan
#49. Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.
Gerry Cooney
#50. If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.
Gerry Adams
#51. How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
Gerry Spence
#53. What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
Elbridge Gerry
#54. Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.
Gerry Spence
#55. When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing.
Gerry Cooney
#57. There are some people in show business who are proud of the number of marriages they've had.
Gerry Anderson
#58. There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.
Gerry Harvey
#59. I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.
Gerry Schwartz
#60. I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic.
Gerry Lindgren
#61. The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.
Gerry Spence
#62. You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.
Gerry Cooney
#63. There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.
Gerry Abbey
#65. To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.
Gerry Spence
#66. Without argument the species would parish.
Gerry Spence
#67. Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.
Elbridge Gerry
#68. There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.
Gerry Spence
#69. The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
Gerry Adams
#70. Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.
Gerry Adams
#71. I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.
Gerry Harvey
#72. If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.
Gerry Lindgren
#73. As we balance and become more and more identified with our spiritual nature, and the ego returns to its designated place, we again are led by the Spirit, but now in a conscious way.
Gerry Boylan
#74. If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage.
Gerry Harvey
#75. It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.
Gerry Schwartz
#76. The internet thing is what I have the greatest problem with. I don't know if anyone in the media gets the internet thing and Harvey Norman. I think they have some strange interpretation of it that bears no resemblance to what actually happens.
Gerry Harvey
#77. In my lifetime, I've met a lot of people who never rode a wave, but we share the same consciousness. Surfing is a kind of a state of mind ... I mean, it's a feeling that people have about their life that really, in a way, kind of makes them a surfer.
Gerry Lopez
#79. As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn't even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.
Gerry Abbey
#80. I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
Gerry Mulligan
#81. You've got to open on a Sunday, but at the end of the day, you've just lost a lot of money by opening on the Sunday, so it's very, very difficult to make money when you're paying unskilled people $42 per hour.
Gerry Harvey
#82. Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Gerry Adams
#83. Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.
Gerry McGovern
#84. Some analysts think people come into our shops and then go and buy the product on the Internet, but the manufacturer knows if the customer can't see the product and assess it, they won't buy.
Gerry Harvey
#85. I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.
Gerry Spence
#86. The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.
Gerry Adams
#87. Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured ... Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.
Gerry Spence
#88. The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan
#89. Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.
Gerry Mulligan
#90. I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.
Gerry Cooney
#91. Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.
Gerry Spence
#92. The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.
Gerry Spence
#93. No religious doctrine shall be established by law.
Elbridge Gerry
#94. The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
Gerry Spence
#95. This was not just any urn. It was a cremation urn, housing the powdered remains of Mrs. Pule's mother Wanda, a woman so mean and nasty that she had it put in writing that upon her death she wished to be cremated and have her ashes scattered over people who had annoyed her.
Gerry Swallow
#96. Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
Gerry Adams
#97. Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.
Gerry Lindgren
#98. Her paintings formed a visual diary, an outward manifestation of her inward dialog that was, all too often, a scream of pain.
Gerry Souter
#99. I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.
Gerry Anderson
#100. Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.
Gerry Lindgren
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