Top 100 Put Quotes
#1. Come on, Park," his dad said sharply, "get dressed and put your makeup on." Like
Rainbow Rowell
#2. If they make you put on a suit, it's because they are going to do something horrible to you. I guarantee it.
Jesse Ball
#3. If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.
Isaac Slade
#4. In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.
Julia Cameron
#5. You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.
Lucy Liu
#6. Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
Cory Doctorow
#7. I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.
Josh Radnor
#8. The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.
Miyavi
#9. Religious fermentation is always a symptom of the intellectual vigor of a society; and it is only when they forget that they are hypotheses and put on rationalistic and authoritative pretensions, that our faiths do harm.
William James
#10. Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.
Rick Riordan
#11. There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.
Michael Anti
#12. [Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#13. You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. She should not laugh loudly in front of all the world and should preserve her decency at all times.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#14. Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
Richard Bach
#15. Fatima's hair, what was left of it, had pulled free of the coil into which she'd put it before striking the match. Her face was now black and shiny, as if an artist commissioned to lacquer the eyes of a statue of
Katherine Boo
#16. There's never any knowing - how am I to put it? - which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever. - E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
Zadie Smith
#17. I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be.
Will Smith
#18. Boys laugh at what they put girls through - but they won't be laughing when - they're wiping tears off their daughters face for the same reason.
Will Smith
#19. neck and collarbone and took a picture. Kiss me here. #atnight She pressed upload and then put the phone in her bag, walked out into the street and flagged a taxi.
Kate Forster
#20. My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
Charles Baxter
#21. Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.
Joe Perry
#22. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Donna Ball
#23. All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
Antonin Artaud
#24. I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.
Trey Songz
#25. Every time you use a coffeemaker for your morning cappuccino, you are benefiting from the fragility of the coffeemaking entrepreneur who failed. He failed in order to help put the superior merchandise on your kitchen counter.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#26. I am AFRAID OF TALKING WITH PEOPLE... MAINLY BECAUSE WORDS LOSE WEIGHT... MAINLY BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T PUT VALUE ON THEM.
Deyth Banger
#27. Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is a deeply rooted need in the human psyche. at the slightest provocation we will put distance between ourselves and those we cannot or do not want to understand
Susan Nathan
#28. There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.
Tobin Bell
#29. Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you but that's alright, when they put you in that box (after your dead), they're going to put dirt on you some more, so that's okay - GO, don't be afraid, have NO FEAR.
Tyler Perry
#30. My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
Kevin Brownlow
#31. The companies' most effective tactic, however, was simply to put out the goods and let surgeons play.
Atul Gawande
#32. But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?
Nikos Kazantzakis
#34. If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
(Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]
Ovid
#35. I love you," he said against her lips. "I love you, too," she said but the words that always seemed so big felt small now. What was love when put up against war?
Kristin Hannah
#36. I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#37. True friends are to people what lighthouses are to ships. No matter how stormy it gets, they stay put and light our way.
Julie-Anne
#38. She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.
David Anthony Durham
#39. Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.
Rachel Grady
#40. Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind ...
J.K. Rowling
#41. I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.
Leah Chase
#42. Severe depression, put simply, is an overwhelming and unmanageable onslaught of every normal, human fear and difficult emotion. It is a loss of and lack of perspective and proportion.
Sally Brampton
#43. If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.
Robert Smith
#44. One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Pauline Kael
#46. The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.
John Newton
#47. I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
Bill Parcells
#48. An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Edward De Bono
#49. The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
Catherine Bell
#50. You can teach a bubbly person to repair shoes, but you can't put the personality into a grumpy cobbler.
John Timpson
David Shindler
#51. No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.
Charles Comiskey
#52. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
Stephen Richards
#53. I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it and then put it away and wait until I've gotten more thoughts on it or get sure exactly how to approach it.
Christopher Owens
#54. There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."
Jeff Merkley
#55. The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.
Elizabeth Holmes
#56. He snorted. "Are you lying to me, Miss Marshall?"
"Of course I am." She smiled at him. "I thought it would put you at ease.
Courtney Milan
#57. But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.
S.D. Lawendowski
#58. You must be classic. Put yourselves before the model in a workmanlike spirit.
Andre Lhote
#60. Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
Edward Rutledge
#61. Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things - and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#62. Like waves, men and women exist only in motion, in change. Put them on the page, and you have already failed. And
Brian Staveley
#63. Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours ... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.
Jerry Pournelle
#64. As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and since musical ideas have been presented ... So we shall try to put our finger on the laws that must be at the bottom of this ...
Anton Webern
#65. It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan
#66. I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.
Scarlett Johansson
#67. When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.
Beverly LaHaye
#68. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
Ban Ki-moon
#69. I try to bring my mascara everywhere because I'm a blonde and you know blondes have really light eyelashes, you always wanna put more and more on 'til they look like spiders, that's just what I do.
Julianne Hough
#70. I never put too much pressure on myself when I'm the central thing, just because I don't think I could handle it mentally. I haven't really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.
Will Ferrell
#71. What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.
Mary McCarthy
#72. The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
Ian Millar
#73. I put Post-It notes everywhere to remind me of everything. I stick a ton of them on my computer monitor, telephone, and wallet. The problem now is that there are so many of them that my mind has blocked them all out. So I now need Post-It notes to remind me to look at my Post-It notes.
Stephan Pastis
#74. The story of Genesis could only be a poorly written misconception that put needless blame on women. Estella
Ira Smith
#75. From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.
Rumi
#76. The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
Tony Kushner
#77. I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.
Alan Dershowitz
#78. You can't put your fist through a man's wood and expect him to forgive and forget.
Kevin Hearne
#79. My leg hurts," the soldier whined.
"Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?
John Flanagan
#80. There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.
Will Rogers
#81. He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.
Groucho Marx
#82. Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins ... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.
Paul Weyrich
#83. Then, and only then, do they see me. But they do not always know what they have seen.
I see you as a code to be broken, or a puzzle to be cracked. Or a jig-saw puzzle, to be put together. I walk through your life, and I stand motionless at the edge of my own life.
Neil Gaiman
#84. Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.
Carl Jung
#85. I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.
Douglas Rushkoff
#86. The summer is put away folded up in the drawer with other summers.
Virginia Woolf
#87. When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.
Jim Rohn
#89. I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
David Edward Jenkins
#90. I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!
George H. Miley
#91. Put two men together, and they will find something to argue about. Gather them into groups, and one group will find reason to oppress or attack another.
Brandon Sanderson
#92. So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.
Steve Martin
#93. DO NOT put infants in a recovery position. They are not able to support themselves in this position. Instead, take the infant with you to call 9-1-1.
American National Red Cross
#94. He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.
Nora Roberts
#95. There is a great amount of precision within each individual's technique and role in the play. When you put 22 of them out there, it can look chaotic but when you break down individual performance, it looks less so.
Brendan Daly
#96. Have you ever had sex with a Pharaoh?
I put the pussy in a sarcophagus
Kanye West
#97. Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it.
Ronnie Wood
#98. They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim.
Michael Strahan
#99. I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.
Eartha Kitt
#100. When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.
Richard Madden
