Top 100 Lou Quotes

#1. I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

Lou Reed

#2. I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

Lou Reed

#3. I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

Lou Holtz

#4. I think Eric Bana would be a good Superman. He's got that look. I think he'd be a great Superman.

Lou Ferrigno

#5. Nice work,' Nico said.
Lou Ellen blushed. 'Well, it's the only pig ball I have. So don't ask for an encore.

Rick Riordan

#6. If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

Lou Holtz

#7. I did a movie 'I Love You, Man' and it got great reviews; it was very enjoyable.

Lou Ferrigno

#8. I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

Lou Reed

#9. I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

Lou Reed

#10. Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and try to do the opposite.

Lou Krieger

#11. If you use a standard called "biological value" to rate protein sources ... soy finishes far below eggs, milk, fish, beef and chicken. The food with the highest biological value ever measured is whey protein ...

Lou Schuler

#12. Life is about choices, and you have the ability to choose. You always have had this ability. I suggest that not only do you have the ability, you have the responsibility to make choices for yourself. It is your life, and you are in the driver's seat, if you choose to be.

Lou Tice

#13. When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

Lou Holtz

#14. The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

Lou Ferrigno

#15. The endorsement game has been very good to me.

Mary Lou Retton

#16. Stay away from these three people if you want to lead a happy healthy stress free life. Lawyers,Doctors and Priests. Lawyers take your money,Doctors take your health and Priests take your soul.

Lou Silluzio

#17. Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.

Lou Reed

#18. Hey, Lou!" she yelled. "I meant to say to you. Moving on doesn't mean you loved my dad any less, you know. I'm pretty sure even he would tell you that.

Jojo Moyes

#19. Live life carefully but save time for fun.

Cindy Lou Moldovan

#20. Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

Lou Holtz

#21. There's nothing like cataloguing books for taking your mind off things.

Mary Lou Kirwin

#22. I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.

Mary Lou Retton

#23. Henri J.M. Nouwen wrote about 'wounded healers.' I've come to see that there's no other kind. We are all wounded, and we are all called to take part in what God is doing to bring healing to those around us.

Mary Lou Redding

#24. On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear.

Joyce Carol Oates

#25. I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

Lou Reed

#26. You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

Lou Reed

#27. I've always had a strange acting life. I'm the daughter of a director, and a very French, typical director who fell in love with every single one of his actresses. And that's also something that's kind of normal in the acting business, because everything is based on desire, one way or the other.

Lou Doillon

#28. The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

Lou Holtz

#29. Things always seem to end before they start

Lou Reed

#30. Here's to Mulberry Jane
She made jam when she came
Somebody cut off her feet
Now jelly rolls in the street.

Lou Reed

#31. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun

Mary Lou Cook

#32. I never think about losing.

Lou Ferrigno

#33. You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Lou Holtz

#34. I've done the voice for the Hulk for the animated cartoon.

Lou Ferrigno

#35. Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

Lou Andreas-Salome

#36. You're flightier than a hummingbird on crack.

Lou Harper

#37. Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

Lou Duva

#38. I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.

Lou Holtz

#39. It's not who you slept with that matters, but whom you fell in love with.

Lou Harper

#40. I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can.

Lou Gramm

#41. It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.

Lou Holtz

#42. Even though it may seem counterintuitive, a comfort zone is a dangerous place to be.

Mary Lou Retton

#43. If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.

H.F. Peters

#44. I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.

Lou Reed

#45. No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

Lou Holtz

#46. Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Lou Reed

#47. Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

Lou Holtz

#48. People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Lou Reed

#49. Why don't you swallow razor blades?

Lou Reed

#50. I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive - on certain streets.

Lou Barletta

#51. I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.

David E. Hoffman

#52. With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

Curt Weldon

#53. How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz

#54. Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.

Lou Reed

#55. He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.

Lou Albano

#56. We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'

Lou Holtz

#57. If you're expecting an upside in everything you do you might get extremely disappointed unless you also think about the consequences of a downside first.

Lou Silluzio

#58. When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

Mickey Mantle

#59. Never tell your problems to any1 ... 20% donot care and 80% are glad to have them ...

Lou Holtz

#60. I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

Lou Reed

#61. To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

Lou Ferrigno

#62. Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.

Mary Lou Retton

#63. It didn't matter how wonderful Andrew was and how much effort he was prepared to put into their relationship. While Lou didn't feel the same way, his love was only building a tower without foundations.

Chris Manby

#64. When I saw Fannie Lou Hamer speech I said, "Well, how did this Democratic Party that Miss Hamer is talking about, become the Democratic Party that now is the party of the African-American community?"

Leah D. Daughtry

#65. I believe that there is a future in anything that one is vitally interested in.

Lou Henry Hoover

#66. If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is, do you create a culture of behavior and action that really demonstrates those values and a reward system for those who adhere to them?

Lou Gerstner

#67. I just want to keep America safe. Who could be against that?

Lou Barletta

#68. You have people telling you how good you are and all of a sudden, you might start believing it and forget what it takes to be good.

Lou Lamoriello

#69. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

Lou Gehrig

#70. You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

Lou Gehrig

#71. Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

#72. You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

Lou Brock

#73. I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

Lou Reed

#74. Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes.

Lou Diamond Phillips

#75. To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.

Lou Holtz

#76. There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story.

Mary Lou Kownacki

#77. The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can't bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest degree, so from the age of five I've been taught that if I did two things at the same time, it meant I didn't know how to do one. It's an obsession that they have.

Lou Doillon

#78. How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

Lou Reed

#79. I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

Lou Reed

#80. All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

Mary-Lou Weisman

#81. Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

Lou Holtz

#82. It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.

Lou Doillon

#83. You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Lou Holtz

#84. Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Lou Reed

#85. I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Lou Reed

#86. I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

Lou Gramm

#87. The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

Lou Holtz

#88. There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#89. Black people know what white people mean when they say "law and order".

Fannie Lou Hamer

#90. You can't always trust your mother.

Lou Reed

#91. I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

Lou Reed

#92. A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

Lou Rawls

#93. When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

Lou Reed

#94. The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder ...

Fannie Lou Hamer

#95. I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

Lou Doillon

#96. If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

Lou Brock

#97. Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.

Lou Gramm

#98. Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

Lou Reed

#99. I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#100. Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

John C. McGinley

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