Top 100 Quotes About A Rod

#1. If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.

Ted Trueblood

#2. The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.

Rod Stewart

#3. I've been going a long time now
along the way I've learned some things.
You have to make the good times yourself
take the little times and make them into big times
and save the times that are all right
for the ones that aren't so good.

Rod McKuen

#4. My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

Karolyn Grimes

#5. The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

Rod Serling

#6. Wisdom is a teacher,
God is its professor.
The wise are His students,
life is His rod,
and eternal life is our reward.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. I invite you to read again the full accounts of this inspired vision. Study them, ponder them, and apply them to your daily life. In modern terms we might say we are invited to "get a grip." We must hold on tight to the iron rod and never let go.

Ann M. Dibb

#8. Creativity isn't a switch that's flicked on or off; it's a way of seeing, engaging and responding to the world around you.

Rod Judkins

#9. Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

Edgar Friedenberg

#10. I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

Rod Stewart

#11. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

Rod Serling

#12. You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling

#13. To flourish in any field of activity you need to gain a deep understanding of it.

Rod Judkins

#14. I feel a little like Rod Tidwell from Jerry Maguire

Kendrick Meek

#15. A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.

Rod Milburn

#16. I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

Rod Stewart

#17. You know I think I could give a little more back to charity.

Rod Stewart

#18. I would guess that Ray Bradbury would be equally resentful of what they did with Illustrated Man, which, you know, took a central idea thesis of his and pissed all over it - made it into one of the worst movies ever made.

Rod Serling

#19. The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

Pancho Gonzales

#20. My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

Rod Stewart

#21. That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

Rod Steiger

#22. I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

Christopher Koch

#23. Nd the reason is is if you put a backdoor in, hackers can presumably get a hold of that backdoor as well and break it open. So you make systems less secure for everyone if you do that.

Rod Beckstrom

#24. Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.

Randy West

#25. The worst aspect of our time is prejudice ... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Rod Serling

#26. For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling

#27. For this form of fishing (with a wet fly), the rod is no longer a shooting machine but a receiving post, with super-sensitive antennae, capable of registering immediately the slightest reaction of the fish to the fly.

Charles Ritz

#28. You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.

Rod Lurie

#29. The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.

Clive Davis

#30. I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.

Linda Hamilton

#31. Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

Rod Kanehl

#32. All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

Rod Stewart

#33. Why do ye smite your younger brother with a rod?

Joseph Smith Jr.

#34. I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

Rod Serling

#35. You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.

Rod Stewart

#36. You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into ... the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling

#37. I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

Rod Steiger

#38. Some primitive societies avoid striking out at the true guilty party because it might awaken the spirit of vengeance. Channeling violence toward a sacrificial victim as if toward a lightning rod doubtless stops violence, but it's not very pretty.

Rene Girard

#39. I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'

Rod Steiger

#40. A truly shared kiss requires freedom and equality.

Rod Dubey

#41. An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Rod Laver

#42. Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

Rod Stewart

#43. He bats like a lightning rod.

W.P. Kinsella

#44. An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

Rod Serling

#45. The key to a thrilling life of being sensitive to the voice of God and immediately obeying Him is the firm belief that God's plan for our lives is fundamentally better than anything we can dream up.

Rod Loy

#46. What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Rod Stewart

#47. Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.

Rod Steiger

#48. Martin O'Neill rules with a rod of fear.

Stan Collymore

#49. Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.

Rod Serling

#50. Love is just a hole in the wall.

Rod Stewart

#51. If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.

Rod Dixon

#52. You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.

Michael Hyatt

#53. And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade.

Oscar Wilde

#54. The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

Rod Serling

#55. A virtuous society, by contrast, is one that shares belief in objective moral goods and the practices necessary for human beings to embody those goods in community. To

Rod Dreher

#56. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better.

Rod Steiger

#57. why is most of the evil of this world the work of men? I suppose there are a few evil women, but they are a rarity, and I can't say I ever met one.

Rod Collins

#58. Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams.

Fennel Hudson

#59. You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

Jodi Picoult

#60. I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.

Billy Joel

#61. You must feel comfortable with that fly rod in your hand before you spend time, money, and emotional capital on a fishing trip.

The Orvis Company

#62. It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a major thing. I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect.

Rod Serling

#63. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both,

Mark Twain

#64. People love to say, "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime." What they don't say is, "And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod." That's the part of the analogy that's missing.

Trevor Noah

#65. A lot of women in the summer nowadays are just a bunch of stuffed shorts.

Rod Brasfield

#66. I woke up in a barnyard when I heard a farmer shout. Get away, boy, from my daughter, then a shot gun rang out.

Rod Stewart

#67. I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

Rod Dreher

#68. In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

Arthur Eddington

#69. Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.

Rod Stewart

#70. A miler's kick does the trick ... A miler's kick does the trick ...

Rod Dixon

#71. A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

David James

#72. Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that's a great compliment for us.

Ilie Nastase

#73. If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant ... then you're in deep trouble.

Rod Serling

#74. God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.

Baltasar Gracian

#75. I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.

Rod Stewart

#76. A sign points to something beyond itself. For example, a road sign directs you where to go. If you are among the elect of God, you are a sign. People in your spheres of influence should be able to look at you and find their way to Jesus.

Rod Parsley

#77. Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

Rod Stryker

#78. When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?

John Calvin

#79. With a few exceptions, conservative Christian political activists are as ineffective as White Russian exiles, drinking tea from samovars in their Paris drawing rooms, plotting the restoration of the monarchy. One wishes them well but knows deep down that they are not the future.

Rod Dreher

#80. Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.

Rod Serling

#81. Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other (see Eph. 6:16; 1 Ne. 15:24; D&C 27:17). There should be no mistaking; it will take both hands!

Neal A. Maxwell

#82. I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

Rod Taylor

#83. Formerly, a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July, but throughout his life, a man beloved by the children, and therefore a most important man.

Rod Serling

#84. I got a letter from a lightning rod company this morning trying to out the fear of God in me, but with small success. Lightning seems to have lost its menace. Compared to what is going on on earth today, heaven's firebrands are penny fireworks with wet fuses.

E.B. White

#85. A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.

Artie Lange

#86. Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

Rod Blagojevich

#87. There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

Rod Stryker

#88. There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.

Rod Paige

#89. In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.

Rod Stewart

#90. I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

Rod Stewart

#91. Wise words come from the lips of people with understanding, but those lacking sense will be beaten with a rod. 14 Wise people treasure knowledge, but the babbling of a fool invites disaster.

Anonymous

#92. It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

Rod Parsley

#93. For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

Rod McKuen

#94. We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

Neal A. Maxwell

#95. Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.

Jeffrey Kluger

#96. I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

Rod Stewart

#97. When people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew ...

John Geddes

#98. To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

Rod Taylor

#99. I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the years. But obviously, to the young writer that's unfair and it's discriminatory, and it can be very hurtful to one's career.

Rod Serling

#100. I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Rod McKuen

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