Kramden Quotes

#1. My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.

Bill O'Reilly

#2. Guys can look like pigs. The girl always has to be a looker. Look at most TV shows: According To Jim - pig and a looker. Still Standing - pig and a looker. Ralph Kramden [on The Honeymooners] - pig and a looker. Family Guy - pig and a looker. It's a theme.

Alex Borstein

#3. Ralph Kramden, as played by Jackie Gleason, was this big bumbling New York City bus driver who was kind of mean and crass and a little bit egotistical. But underneath it all, he was a big heart looking for a place to land I think.

George Saunders

#4. From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

Dalai Lama

#5. The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

H.L. Mencken

#6. Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. "Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."

Arthur Porges

#8. All of my stuff is raw, it's emotive, it's real.

King Krule

#9. But then again I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn't like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#10. I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

Steve Ballmer

#11. Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

Lord Byron

#12. It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the cracks, slid past the guard, and you didn't know how deep they were buried until they were gone and you were bleeding on the floor.

V.E Schwab

#13. Magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

Jo Walton