Joe Wheeler Quotes

#1. A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

Michael Douglas

#2. No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#3. To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

Oriana Fallaci

#4. There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

Joe L. Wheeler

#5. There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?

Joe L. Wheeler

#6. Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.

Joe L. Wheeler

#7. I'm approaching the idea of taking on a responsibility as great as saying, "I'm good enough to be in your movie." It's a huge statement to make, and every time I do it, I think, "Is this the right choice?"

Kristen Stewart

#8. Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.

Joe L. Wheeler

#9. As we hypnotically watch the steadily diminishing reserve of sand in life's hourglass, the instincts of a miser surface. Life is now savored, sipped as with a fine 19th Century French wine.

Joe L. Wheeler

#10. Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

John Doolittle

#11. That is the first time I enjoy the privilege of having the upper hand with Professor Delacroix. And though I do not yet know it, it will also be the last.

Nenia Campbell

#12. Because being with you is like being too close to the sun. It's overwhelming and I'm scared I'm going to get burned.

Ivory Quinn

#13. Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.

Joe Frazier

#14. With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare ... because there are so few such diadems left.

Joe L. Wheeler

#15. I hope that when the characters in my novels dream beyond their current circumstance, it inspires the reader to do the same.

Kristine Scarrow

#16. Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.

Joe Frazier

#17. Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an instrument of God's will.

Joe L. Wheeler

#18. They shouldn't hate each other ... I don't hate the Socs any more ... they shouldn't hate ...

S.E. Hinton

#19. Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Joe L. Wheeler

#20. When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union's side, Lincoln's unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God's side.

Joe L. Wheeler

#21. You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Agatha Christie

#22. And godless though I am, the fact of being human, the fact of possessing the gift of study, and thus being remarkable among all the matter floating through the cosmos, still awes me.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#23. I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions.

Ken Jeong

#24. If the Lord had meant us to pay income taxes, he'd have made us smart enough to prepare the return.

Kirk Kirkpatrick