Top 100 Otis Quotes
#1. Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.
Otis Chandler
#2. The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.
Mercy Otis Warren
#5. I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
Otis Blackwell
#6. I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.
Amos Otis
#7. The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Mercy Otis Warren
#8. Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.
Carre Otis
#9. Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#10. I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
Otis Blackwell
#11. If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
Otis Redding
#12. It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#14. I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.
Otis Rush
#15. Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.
Rick Riordan
#16. To be clear, Goodreads staff have not been deleting any posts. A value we've always had here is that we don't censor content (unless it's against our policies - eg porn, etc). [April 1, 2013]
Otis Y. Chandler
#17. Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it really enjoyable to me is that every wave is different ... there's a special, non-repetitive pleasure in it that never gets boring.
Otis Chandler
#18. We are all human first and the human relationship regardless of race, religion or gender is one of respect.
Otis Teague
#19. While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.
Roland Gift
#20. When we go into the 80's it has more of a pop feel. But it's what I wanted to do. I wasn't trying to reach. See, that's the thing with me, I never wanted to reach any particular crowd. I'm writing for myself. If I don't like it I won't play it for anybody.
Shuggie Otis
#21. I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.
Carre Otis
#22. Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.
Otis Rush
#23. I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.
Carre Otis
#24. I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too.
William Bell
#26. If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?
Otis Moss III
#27. Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#28. Oh my God. I'm not Keith Richards. I'm Otis from Mayberry! A fucking drunk!
Dave Mustaine
#29. There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.
Carre Otis
#30. By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.
Mercy Otis Warren
#31. I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
Otis Redding
#32. It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#33. We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.
Otis Williams
#34. My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.
Carre Otis
#35. My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.
Carre Otis
#36. I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
Otis Rush
#37. A man is accountable to no person for his doings.
James Otis
#38. My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
James Otis
#39. Otis," I said.
"Shhh," he said. "I'm incognito. Call me...Otis."
"I'm not sure that's how incognito works, but okay."
Otis, aka Otis climbed into the chair I'd reserved for Sam.
Rick Riordan
#40. How much verbal garbage there is going out across the air waves and across the pulpits of our land because preachers do not believe the Gospel; do not believe that Jesus Christ is the only way.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#41. I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?
Carre Otis
#42. You killed Thor!" Otis bleated. "You dropped a giantess on him!
Rick Riordan
#43. Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
Donald Dunn
#44. I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.
Carre Otis
#45. I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.
Otis Moss III
#46. The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
Mercy Otis Warren
#48. With This Ring
I give my all to you
Now and my whole life through
With this ring
Clyde Otis
#49. I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.
Otis Williams
#50. Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#51. I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.
Carre Otis
#52. The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
Mercy Otis Warren
#53. The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.
Mercy Otis Warren
#54. Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
James Otis
#55. Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.
Carre Otis
#56. Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
James Otis
#57. I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.
Nolan Ryan
#58. I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.
Sada Thompson
#59. Make the most of the moments with those you love, it's once upon a person to Live and then Die. Give them the most precious gift of all Time!
Otis Teague
#60. Knowledge is power; and power is best shared among friends.
Otis Chandler
#61. The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.
Carre Otis
#62. The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#63. A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
Mercy Otis Warren
#64. I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.
Carre Otis
#65. I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.
James Otis
#66. On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.
Mercy Otis Warren
#67. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it. Concentrate and practice every single day.
Otis Redding
#68. Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.
Carre Otis
#69. I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.
Elle King
#70. You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.
Carre Otis
#71. My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.
Carre Otis
#72. When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
Dolly Parton
#73. No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.
Mercy Otis Warren
#74. One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.
James Otis
#75. When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.
Carre Otis
#76. We should be supportive of the president and supportive of rights of all in a pluralistic democracy that we're called to love. And we live our faith; we don't legislate our faith.
Otis Moss III
#77. Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?
Chrissie Hynde
#79. Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
James Otis
#80. When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
Langhorne Slim
#81. The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Mercy Otis Warren
#82. When it comes to screening, a doctor who says 'Let's err on the side of caution,' may actually err on the side of reckless ignorance and grave harm.
Otis Webb Brawley
#83. They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.
Heather Brewer
#84. I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
Otis Blackwell
#85. That it is not same-gender relationships that are destroying marriage. What is actually destroying marriage is high unemployment, incarceration, a lack of education and ministers living in contradiction where they speak about holiness on one side but yet are living in adultery on the other.
Otis Moss III
#86. There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards.
Shuggie Otis
#87. Listen, ump. How can you sleep with the lights on?
Amos Otis
#88. Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.
Carre Otis
#89. While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.
Carre Otis
#90. I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
Otis Rush
#91. Far away is far away only if you don't go there.
George Otis
#92. When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
Otis Blackwell
#94. All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane ...
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#95. I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
Otis Rush
#96. Once we start worrying too often or too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency. I suggest if that day ever comes, then the press has had it.
Otis Chandler
#97. The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.
Heather Brewer
#98. I didn't know what to do with calories.
Carre Otis
#99. Taxation without representation is tyranny.
James Otis
#100. I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.
Johnny Otis
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