Top 100 Quotes About 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. I will not ask you where you have been tonight
I'll only say hello
and hope.
Rod McKuen
#3. The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.
Rod Stewart
#4. 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
#5. You know, it's just my dream came true.
Rod Stewart
#6. As you get older, your metabolism slows down. You've got to admit it. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you have lived your life to the full.
Rod Stewart
#7. I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.
Rod Stewart
#8. The crowd slowly dispersed in soft, whispering groups, voices muted by the fascination of death that all men carry with them in small pockets deep inside them.
Rod Serling
#9. My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.
Karolyn Grimes
#10. You know what is interesting, Condit is very conservative. He voted to post the ten commandments in schools. Yet, he himself broke the 11th commandment, 'Thou shall not put thy rod in thy staff.'
Jay Leno
#11. The way they dress here (California), your head is always in the stands. All those bikinis, your eyes get tired.
Rod Carew
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.
Rod Steiger
#18. Revolution was never sparked by political philosophy. It has ever been the price of bread that shakes the pillars of the world. Yet they lock up the thinkers and leave the bakers free.
Rod Duncan
#19. I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.
Rod Stewart
#20. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.
Rod Serling
#21. Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling
#23. 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
#25. To flourish in any field of activity you need to gain a deep understanding of it.
Rod Judkins
#26. Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
Rod Blagojevich
#27. What will help you to press forward and continually hold fast to the iron rod? Center your life on the Savior and develop daily habits of righteous living.
Mary N. Cook
#28. When you've got your man down, rub him out.
Rod Laver
#29. I feel a little like Rod Tidwell from Jerry Maguire
Kendrick Meek
#30. My hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act in the face of fear, [imbibes and imbues them] with enough faith [that] is bigger than their fear.
Rod Stryker
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Theres no misery in not being loved,
only in not loving
Rod McKuen
#34. I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?
Rod Stewart
#36. Did you think of party dresses
and high school plays
or hallways full of lovers not yet met?
Rod McKuen
#37. You know I think I could give a little more back to charity.
Rod Stewart
#38. Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important
currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone.
Rod Steiger
#39. 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
#40. There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#41. 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
#42. If you deal with every customer in the same way, you will only close 25 to 30 percent of your contacts, because you will only close one personality type. But if you learn how to effectively work with all four personality types, you can conceivably close 100 percent of your contacts.
Rod Nichols
#43. The time we waste is equal to the distance between ourselves and the iron rod.
Kimberly Jo Smith
#44. Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class?
Eddie Izzard
#45. My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
Rod Stewart
#46. That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.
Rod Steiger
#47. 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
#48. Time will pass whether you do it or not
Rod Walsh
#49. 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
#50. To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.
Rod McKuen
#51. I went back to look for you.
Not understanding the language of hello,
I thought I'd speak it just the same.
Rod McKuen
#52. 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
#53. The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
Rod Steiger
#54. I insert the bevel and draw back the plunger. I know that the syringe contains more than sodium chloride-that even as the toxic contents fill my fathers veins, he is sharing with me his final gift: the horror and thrill of saving lives.
Jacob M. Appel
#55. Regardless of gender, marital status, or age, individuals can choose to link themselves directly to the Savior, hold fast to the rod of His truth, and lead by the light of that truth. By so doing, they become examples of righteousness to whom others will want to cling.
Russell M. Nelson
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease.
Rod Parsley
#61. 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
#62. We are in the middle of an education recession.
Rod Paige
#63. 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
#64. Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
Rod Kanehl
#65. 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
#66. No matter how long you practiceyou sense there will always be something to learn,something more to embrace about yourself & life.
Rod Stryker
#67. We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.
Rod Steiger
#69. I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.
Rod Serling
#70. You don't know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don't know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!
Gustav Landauer
#71. 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
#72. You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.
Rod Stewart
#73. I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.
Rod Stewart
#74. Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
Rod Sterling
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.
Rod Serling
#79. Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.
Rod Liddle
#80. 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
#82. A truly shared kiss requires freedom and equality.
Rod Dubey
#83. There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
Rod Serling
#84. An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Rod Laver
#85. Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.
Rod Stewart
#86. According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man's prerogative - and woman's - to create their own particular and private hell.
Rod Serling
#87. Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.
Rod Dreher
#89. 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
#90. It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.
Rod McKuen
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.
Rod Steiger
#94. Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.
John Calvin
#95. Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
Rod Serling
#96. The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
Rod Parsley
#97. Beautiful women, wealth, sensations, celebrity, substances capable of distorting my perception, and even forcing my body into positions ready for the covers of important yoga magazines - I pursued them all, some wholeheartedly, but none would satisfy my real longing.
Rod Stryker
#98. We begin to make the plan known to our children when we hold tight to the iron rod ourselves.
Rosemary M. Wixom
#99. For some people it may be kind of off-putting. But the idea that fear accompanies us at every step: the point is that our courage has to be bigger than our fear.
Rod Stryker
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