Karras Quotes

#1. Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it.

William Peter Blatty

#2. Karras showered and then dressed in a T-shirt and trousers. Sitting down to his desk, he discovered a carton of Camel non-filters, and beside it a key that was labeled LANGUAGE LAB and another

William Peter Blatty

#3. The burnished rays of the setting sun flamed glory on the clouds of the western sky before shattering in gold and vermilion dapples on the darkening waters of the river. Once Karras met God in this sight. Long ago. Like a lover forsaken, he still kept the rendezvous.

William Peter Blatty

#4. We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.

Pietro Metastasio

#5. My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

Alex Karras

#6. It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

Alex Karras

#7. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Alex Karras

#8. Hey, is this room out of bounds?

Alex Karras

#9. All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we have to live with that fact.

David J. C. MacKay

#10. Despair often breeds disease.

Sophocles

#11. Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Martin Cruz Smith

#12. When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next movie ... well, let's just say I made sure I that I can't be held legally responsible for all the deaths people will suffer out of shock upon hearing them. They're a terrific band.

Zach Braff

#13. I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

Alex Karras

#14. Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

Christopher Caldwell

#15. Everybody always wanted me to be sorry, I guess, and I am. And I'm tired of it. And I want to play football and, well, if I can't I'll have to do something else.

Alex Karras

#16. It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

Arthur Laffer

#17. I don't have regrets because they are negative.

Bruce Oldfield