Top 100 Randall's Quotes
#1. Perhaps once he had been a good clown. A noble clown. But he'd stolen Randall's chainsaw, and had to die.
Blake Crouch
#2. If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.
Randall Munroe
#3. It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV.
Randall Wright
#4. The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.
Randall Robinson
#5. You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.
Randall Jarrell
#6. Love isn't an opinion, it's a chemical reaction.
Tony Randall
#7. I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
Randall Terry
#8. The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
Randall Munroe
#9. You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.
Randall Robinson
#10. I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
Randall Park
#11. We live in a world where there are many risks, and it's high time we start taking seriously which ones we should be worried about.
Lisa Randall
#12. By choosing the right words, you can take an idea that's happening in your head and try to make an idea like it happen in someone else's. That's what's happening right now.
Randall Munroe
#13. I mean, I guess it's just me who argues that; but I'm very vocal.
Randall Munroe
#14. I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots of Fire: "God made me fast and when I run I feel his pleasure." God gave me a love of writing and (I knew) to do it I would feel God's pleasure.
Randall Wallace
#15. Lots of data gets collected through the latest technology today, and not all of it is about people's consumer preferences.
Lisa Randall
#16. There's no material safety data sheet for astatine. If there were, it would just be the word "NO" scrawled over and over in charred blood.
Randall Munroe
#17. It's not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we'll understand better what we mean, what is the fundamental thing that's given us space in the first place and dimensions of space in particular.
Lisa Randall
#18. The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
Randall Terry
#19. Change never comes slowly, brewing on the horizon. It's always in a second. Balanced on the rip of a razor blade, in empty pill bottles, behind two pink lines, or learning that one of your children is slowly slipping into a world of silence.
Andrea Randall
#20. Miz Louisa, she believed in God with all her soul. But she don't subscribe to church much. She say the way some folk run they's churches, it take God right out cha heart.' - Eugene Randall
David Baldacci
#21. If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.
Randall "Tex" Cobb
#22. It's not that the wind is blowing, it's what the wind is blowing.
Randall Munroe
#23. Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.
Randall Robinson
#25. It only looks like such a mess because it's not over yet.
Andrea Randall
#26. I am, madam, Jonathan Randall, Esquire, Captain of His Majesty's Eighth Dragoons. At your service, madam.
Diana Gabaldon
#28. A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.
James Dickey
#29. I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.
Randall Munroe
#30. IF YOU WANT TO transfer a few hundred gigabytes of data, it's generally faster to FedEx a hard drive than to send the files over the Internet. This isn't a new idea - it's often dubbed "SneakerNet" - and it's even how Google transfers large amounts of data internally.
Randall Munroe
#31. Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.
Lisa Randall
#32. Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.
Randall Mann
#33. We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.
Randall Robinson
#34. Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure of the Standard Model, the well-tested theory that describes matter's most basic elements and interactions.
Lisa Randall
#35. Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
Randall Terry
#36. The Adversary seldom loses when you play on his playing field. It's called the home court advantage.
Randall Wright
#37. Magnitude -15 A drifting mote of dust coming to rest on a table Sometimes it's nice not to destroy the world for a change.
Randall Munroe
#38. Cook's The Science of Good Cooking was also helpful.
Randall Munroe
#39. Hans Moravec's book Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind.
Randall Munroe
#40. You can't reinvent yourself using spare parts ...
Barry Randall from My Father's Ashes
Bruce Jenvey
#42. For a small smartphone charger, if it's not warm to the touch, it's using less than a penny a year. This is true of almost any powered device.1
Randall Munroe
#43. I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains.
Randall Robinson
#44. What I do is very theoretical. It won't necessarily have implications for anything anyone is doing tomorrow, yet you know that there's a sense of progress in science, and as we understand more, it just turns out that, somehow, the world evolves with us.
Lisa Randall
#45. It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
Randall Terry
#46. The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
Randall Park
#47. It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?
Randall Terry
#48. We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?
Tony Randall
#49. I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' because it's just such a fascinating place. There are so many amazing stories of bravery coming out of there.
Randall Park
#50. A world of random soul mates would be a lonely one. Let's hope that's not what we live in.
Randall Munroe
#51. The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.
Tony Randall
#52. Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?
Randall Jarrell
#53. O, here's the shoe my baby wore,
but, baby, where are you?
Dudley Randall
#54. As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
Randall Kennedy
#55. I'm carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It's been impressive. I have a Windows and an Android device ... I carry an iPad. I carry a Kindle ... Yeah, I have a lot of devices.
Randall L. Stephenson
#56. Maybe civilization will collapse, we'll all succumb to disease and famine, and the last of us will be eaten by cats. Maybe we'll all be killed by nanobots hours after you read this sentence. There's no way to know.
Randall Munroe
#57. What it is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the God-fearing people against the pagans, and some of the pagans are going to church.
Randall Terry
#58. Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.
Lisa Randall
#59. In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.
Karolyn Grimes
#60. Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up.
Randall Robinson
#61. I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
Randall Munroe
#62. Randall! Of course!" Roger smacked himself on the forehead, and felt his cheeks grow hot at Brianna's giggle. "You're going to think me a complete fool, but I've only just realized who you are.
Diana Gabaldon
#63. When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.
Lisa Randall
#64. I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward.
Paul Randall
#65. From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
Randall Jarrell
#66. And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.
Tony Randall
#67. PTSD: It's the big game. You're wearing a helmet and pads. You make the big play and turn to the crowd, but no one is there,
Peggy Randall-Martin
#69. The particle's discovery is tremendously exciting. It's also inspirational. Let's just enjoy that for now.
Lisa Randall
#70. I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.
Randall Robinson
#71. It's amazing how easy the truth is to accept ... No matter how strange.
K.C. Randall
#72. Telescopes and bathyscapes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.
Randall Munroe
#73. I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.
Lisa Randall
#74. It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
Randall Terry
#75. Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.
Randall Terry
#76. Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.
Randall Robinson
#77. There's this girl in the mirror, i wonder who she is. Sometimes i think i know her and sometimes i wish i did.
Stephine J. Randall
#78. I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world.
K.M. Randall
#79. The position of sun and moon on the Feast of Beltane is one, with a list if two hundred paired figures laid out beneath. Similar tables existed for Hogmanay and Midsummer's Day, and Samhainn, the Feast of All Hallows. The ancient feasts of fire and sun, and Beltane's sun would rise tomorrow.
Diana Gabaldon
#80. He keeps doing that."
"What?" She laughs.
"Kissing your forehead."
"Yeah . . . he does." I can't stop my grin.
"Does it bother you? I can hear your smile, you know."
"Not really. It doesn't, like, mean anything. It's just . . . it's Ryker.
Andrea Randall
#82. They say there are no stupid questions. That's obviously wrong; I think my question about hard and soft things, for example, is pretty stupid. But it turns out that trying to thoroughly answer a stupid question can take you to some pretty interesting places.
Randall Munroe
#83. 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.
Randall Park
#84. She's a nice girl. Not my type." "You don't like them nice?" He had another cigarette going. The smoke was being fanned away from his face by his hand. "I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin." "They take you to the cleaners," Randall said indifferently.
Raymond Chandler
#85. The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.
Lisa Randall
#86. Q. This may be a bit gruesome, but ... if someone's DNA suddenly vanished, how long would that person last?
Randall Munroe
#87. What then was I doing visiting George Washington's Mount Vernon many years ago with Hazel? Confused? Confessedly. How can any American who isn't white not be?
Randall Robinson
#88. George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
Randall Terry
#89. I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.
Lisa Randall
#90. War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.
Randall Wallace
#91. The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.
Randall Robinson
#92. I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true ... If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.
Lisa Randall
#93. The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.
Randall Jarrell
#94. Joke: "Where's the best place to hide a dead body?" Answer: "On page 3 of Google's search results." The only way to be influential is to be found via search engines!
Lori Randall Stradtman
#95. Problem Boats
We keep extra boats stuck to these doors for people to use if there's a problem that makes them not want to be in space anymore, but no one will come get them.
Randall Munroe
#96. It's weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the Universe.
Randall Munroe
#97. I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.
Tony Randall
#98. If we divide up the world's land area evenly, there's enough room for each of us to have a little over 2 hectares each, with the nearest person 77 meters away.
Randall Munroe
#99. I don't know," Jason said with a shrug. "Maybe it's too late for me. Maybe my heart is already too far good."
With a smile she said softly, "It's never too late to be good.
Randall Arthur
#100. There's just nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.
Randall Wallace
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