Quotes About Sinbad

#1. As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'

Raymond E. Feist

#2. I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen

Roddy Doyle

#3. Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Romesh Gunesekera

#4. Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!

Warren Spector

#5. One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.

Steven Millhauser

#6. You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.

Ray Harryhausen

#7. As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.

Adam DeVine

#8. Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

James Joyce

#9. I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.

Ricky Williams

#10. People don't fall in love so easily. So they don't hate so easily, either.

Arina Tanemura

#11. We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.

Sinbad

#12. People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

Sinbad

#13. Who the heck is Donald Trump to fire me? I regret I didn't tell Donald Trump, 'You need to fire your barber. I'm sorry. I ain't feeling you, man. You're fired! I fire you, Donald Trump.'

Sinbad

#14. The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Jean De La Bruyere

#15. I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

Sinbad

#16. Hollywood's not a progressive place. Everyone likes to think that Hollywood is hip, but it's not hip at all.

Sinbad

#17. I, sir, am Dromio; command him away. I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay.

William Shakespeare

#18. We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'

Sinbad

#19. Most people want to be perceived as Katana swords, but they don't spend enough time in the forge to even be butter knives.

Jason Taylor

#20. It was all fun and games until someone else's dick was in your girlfriend's TMJ mouth

Tara Sivec

#21. In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

Ovid

#22. I never should have done 'Celebrity Apprentice.' I didn't want to do it because I didn't want Donald Trump to say, 'You're fired.'

Sinbad

#23. Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.

Walter Darby Bannard

#24. If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

Sinbad

#25. If you got a name like Barack Obama, you're supposed to fight.

Sinbad

#26. My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Grimes

#27. I didn't buy Bentleys. I didn't live large. I invested in me. I invested in a lot of other people.

Sinbad

#28. I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

Sinbad

#29. Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Sinbad

#30. Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

Os Guinness

#31. There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.

Sinbad

#32. There would be no way for anyone to get caught in the act of wondering,

Lois Lowry

#33. Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want.

Sinbad

#34. I've been on the road since 1983. Nothing ever changed, even when I was doing TV and movies.

Sinbad

#35. And then come September, they fell back in step as if they'd never missed a beat. That, Peter figured, was the very definition of a best friend.

Jodi Picoult

#36. History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

James Madison