Top 100 Gordon's Quotes
#1. In the news this week, the polls continue to slide for Gordon Brown and some people are saying he's dead and buried. But I think the opposite - I say GORDON'S ALIVE!
Brian Blessed
#2. It's "I felt bad," not "I felt badly," because "to feel badly" would mean "to grope about ineptly." The verb "felt" - definitely a verb of the senses, though not on Gordon's list - fuses the "bad" to the subject, rather than simply using an adverb to modify itself.
Mary Norris
#3. When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"
Brian Blessed
#4. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel.
Ian Fleming
#5. In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"
Brian Blessed
#6. I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.
Ed Balls
#7. That man," Carol said. "The thin man at Gordon's will reading, with the ridiculous name. He's involved in this, isn't he?"
"Skulduggery Pleasant," Valkyrie nodded. "And yes, he is.
Derek Landy
#8. He suddenly remembered the tape he had taken from Susan's answering machine, and hoped to God there wasn't anything more important in Gordon's message than ravings about rabbits.
Douglas Adams
#9. A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ...
Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?
Ian Fleming
#10. I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon's voice and Thurston Moore's voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.
Norman Reedus
#11. The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.
William Bolitho
#12. Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, the famous "Burma Surgeon.
Ralph Ellison
#14. That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.
Gordon Banks
#15. He that willeth to do shall know what he ought to do. He that doeth the thing he does know will know more. And that more done will open the door yet wider into all the fragrance of a strongly obedient life, and into a clear and clearing understanding of the Lord Jesus Himself.
S.D. Gordon
#16. For all the prizes, recitals and honours that grace Gordon Walker's glittering career, he still likes nothing more than coming home back to play. "I do like my Burns Suppers in Ayrshire. I've piped in the haggis, addressed it and then piped it back out again.
Fergus Muirhead
#17. Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
S.D. Gordon
#18. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!
Mary Gordon
#19. it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process,
Jon Gordon
#20. I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#21. A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.
Gordon R. Dickson
#22. It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere.
Gordon Bethune
#23. It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#24. I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things.
Kim Gordon
#25. History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
Gordon S. Wood
#26. The hordes of demonic activity at times can take advantage of those who are wounded by others in the body of Christ. When we allow any hurt we can be used of the enemy to sow discord into God's work and His body.
Greg Gordon
#28. And mine's a bubble not blown up for praise, But just to play with, as an infant plays.
George Gordon Byron
#29. I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
Gordon Getty
#30. It's the person who likes to pat dogs to whom dogs come for pats.
Arthur Gordon
#31. The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financial crisis revealed a culture quite alien to that heritage. The stewards of people's money were revealed to have been speculators with it.
Gordon Brown
#33. I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.
Gordon Brown
#34. I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.
Gordon Lightfoot
#35. Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt's arms. Bengt's hands on his thighs, arms, chest. Lips and tongue on neck and shoulders, the need for more. 'Don't stop.
G.B. Gordon
#37. I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode.
Kim Gordon
#38. I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.
Kim Gordon
#39. I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#40. It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.
Gordon Getty
#41. As soon seek roses in December, ice in June,
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff
Believe a woman or an epitaph
Or any other thing that's false
Before you trust in critics.
George Gordon Byron
#42. I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#43. Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.
Nick Gordon
#44. I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways ... It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.
Gordon Willis
#45. Usually I don't think much in terms of interesting sounds. Although I think I want to get one of those whammy pedals, I forget what it's called and who makes it. It's got a whole bunch of different settings. You can play a note and it will raise the pitch when you push the pedal.
Mike Gordon
#46. Once the Constitution became a legal rather than a political document, judicial review, although not judicial supremacy, became inevitable.
Gordon S. Wood
#47. When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience's mind week after week.
Howard Gordon
#48. The NHS cannot be privatised if that's not the will of the Scottish people, and the Scottish health service will have the funding that's necessary if that's also the will of the Scottish people.
Gordon Brown
#49. Creativity isn't an occupation, it's a preoccupation.
Gordon Torr
#50. This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child
Gordon Brown
#51. God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God's life and character.
Gordon Fee
#52. But what is worse than all," observed the English traveler Isaac Weld, "these wretches in their combat endeavor to their utmost to tear out each other's testicles."31
Gordon S. Wood
#53. As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#54. We're painted savages, nothing more, in spite of what we like to think of as some thousands of years of civilization. Only our present paint's called clothing and our caves called buildings
Gordon R. Dickson
#55. I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.
David Gordon Green
#56. I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him.
Mike Gordon
#57. People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.
Brian Blessed
#58. Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.
S.D. Gordon
#59. Yet we may constantly do more in what we are than in what we do. We may serve better in the lives we live than in the best service we ever give. The memory of that should bring rest to your spirit when a bit tired, and may be disheartened because tired.
S.D. Gordon
#60. If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact ... I'd point to Elon Musk.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#61. Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him - but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one's actions rather than one's lack of them.
Gordon Dahlquist
#62. (It's) a fair exchange. You're giving me attention. That's a form of affection, you know.
Arthur Gordon
#63. I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#64. Eating out doesn't have to be a formula. Eating out is about having fun. I get really frustrated when it's badly done.
Gordon Ramsay
#65. You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#67. In 1812 the U.S. Army consisted of fewer than seven thousand regular troops.
Gordon S. Wood
#69. Down on my knees again. Worship isn't enough."
Peter leaned forward and rubbed his forehead against Charlie's. "I'm going to like this," he murmured. "Daily services. Hourly services.
Gordon Merrick
#70. It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.
Mike Gordon
#71. Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.
Juliette Gordon Low
#72. The people that I associate myself with are people that are looking to make a good product because it's going to benefit them and it's going to help launch their careers.
David Gordon Green
#73. It's like King Arthur, but Lancelot is a butcher and Guinevere is knocked up.
Gordon Andrews
#74. You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable ... it's your choice
Gordon B. Hinckley
#75. In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately.
Gordon S. Wood
#76. the faithholder is his faith. He and it make, not two, but a single thing. Since he and it are one, there's no way to take it from him. That makes him a very powerful opponent. In fact, it makes him an unconquerable opponent; since even death can't touch him in his most important part.
Gordon R. Dickson
#77. I like good writing. I don't especially care what genre." Mary's
Gordon Hopkins
#78. It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#79. Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It's great to see more of the kids.
Gordon Brown
#80. When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
Jimmy Reid
#81. Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#82. Ummm ... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#83. MasterChef Junior for me was about working closely with these kids and getting them to reeducate their parents to understand that food is as important educationally as Math and English and it's important that we don't take it for granted.
Gordon Ramsay
#84. It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.
Kim Gordon
#85. Being dead is highly overrated. It's no fun at all.
Mythe: A Fairy Tale
P.J. Gordon
#86. Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.
Gordon Livingston
#87. 'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'.
Gordon Lightfoot
#88. I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
Gordon Brown
#89. I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.
Jenny Slate
#90. Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it.
Leslie A. Gordon
#91. I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#92. I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.
Gordon Brown
#93. I love you all, even those I don't
particularly like. That's you, Beryl.
Derek Landy
#94. I've been asked if I think there will ever come a time when all people come together. I would like to think there will. All we can do is hope and dream and work toward that end. And that's what I've tried to do all my life.
Gordon Parks
#95. No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#96. The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate ... Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.
Theodore Gordon
#98. I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.
Gordon Smith
#100. I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.
Gordon Strachan
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