Top 100 Receiver Quotes
#1. I'm a physical receiver, yet I can run and move like someone who is 5-8 or 5-9.
Chad Ochocinco
#2. You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?
Gail Mazur
#3. Danny, give me the phone." Isobel thrust her hand out for the receiver. "And you can forget the five bucks."
"I was gonna charge you three-fifty anyway," he said, holding the phone just out of reach. "He knew he hadn't dialed the wrong number, so I had to tell him you were on the crapper.
Kelly Creagh
#4. There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#5. Greg had been nearly out the door, on his way next door to Shari's birthday party, when the phone rang.
"Hi, Greg. Why aren't you on your way to my party?" Shari had asked when he'd run to pick up the receiver.
"Because I'm on the phone with you," Greg had replied dryly.
R.L. Stine
#6. Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. You need to understand the receiver and the offense you're facing that week. Know his tendencies and what routes he runs out of what formations. This will help you understand the concepts of what the receiver is going to give you on a given play, and make you that much better defending him.
Antonio Cromartie
#8. Never offer unsolicited advice. The receiver might not know that you are smarter than him.
C.J. Langenhoven
#9. Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
[Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]
Tacitus
#10. No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
Seneca The Younger
#11. That's all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of Abraham!
Dan Simmons
#12. There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
Ben Roethlisberger
#13. Away from the receiver, he says, Leslie, wake up, we're being hate-crimed finally.
Chuck Palahniuk
#14. It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.
Jacoby Ellsbury
#15. Pure love is an unmediated, unmitigated, and unrevealing, but everlasting source of joy for the giver and for the receiver.
Debasish Mridha
#16. I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.
Hines Ward
#17. All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors - in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.
Fred Rogers
#18. Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.
Tom Brady
#19. What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#20. If you're always a giver, give yourself a break. Take time for yourself; your well-being is at stake. If you're always a receiver, try a turn at giving. Experience for yourself one of the joys of living.
Elsie Hillman-Gordon
#21. According to Paul in Romans 2, the conscience is like a radio receiver picking up transmissions from that seat of justice.
Timothy Keller
#22. The Giver's Fact: No matter what it appears to be, feedback information is almost totally about the giver, not the receiver.
Anonymous
#23. Anger is a fire of resentment which will burn the bearer and not the receiver.
Debasish Mridha
#24. I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.
Haruki Murakami
#25. The receiver has to expend energy to measure the electromagnetic waves in the vacuum disturbed by the long-gone photon.
Anonymous
#26. Figure out where you are on the field. If you're past 15 or so yards, the ball is going down the field. When you're in great position, you're able to control the receiver.
Antonio Cromartie
#27. I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.
Junior Seau
#28. My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.
Bre Pettis
#29. You need a name."
I covered the receiver for a moment. "We need a team name."
"Hunters," Raphael said.
"Valiant Knights of the Fur," Dali said.
"Justice Group," Jim said. "Since Justice League is taken."
"Fools." Doolittle shook his head.
"Fools," I said into the receiver.
Ilona Andrews
#30. Gift better than Himself God doth not know,
Gift better than God no man can see;
This gift doth here the giver given bestow
Gift to this gift let each receiver be;
God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,
God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me.
Robert Southwell
#31. I'm not trying to be the highest-paid receiver in the National Football League. I've never received that, and that's not ever going to happen. So I'm fine with what I have, I make good money, and I'm happy about it.
Donald Driver
#32. I'm just a receiver. I don't want to be labeled as a deep-threat guy, which is always going to happen because I'm always going to be able to run past people until I'm slow. I watch some guys who are very good at being deep threats, but it's like people don't respect them doing anything else.
Torrey Smith
#33. The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.
Edward P. Jones
#34. "A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."
Leo Tolstoy
#35. My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.
Nikola Tesla
#36. But even in a telephone booth
evil can seep out of the receiver
and we must cover it with a mattress,
and then tear it from its roots
and bury it,
bury it.
Anne Sexton
#37. It is said that 'Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder'. I say, 'Perfection lies in the heart of the receiver.
Kcat Yarza
#38. Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.
Lawrence Weiner
#39. I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.
Drew Brees
#40. Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.
John Logie Baird
#41. Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#42. Every altar worth its salt must have an offered sacrificial Lamb, a consuming burning fire, an ascending smoke, a priest and the receiver (God)
Ikechukwu Joseph
#43. If the sponge (mirror) neurons are our receiver, then our subcortical areas are the amplifier. These subcortical shifts are what changes in us when we attune to someone else.
Daniel J. Siegel
#44. God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.
Arthur Koestler
#45. Man's Heart serves as a transmitter and receiver from person to person and from servant to Glorious God.
Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
#46. The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, "I found this up him!"
"You know," said Tallow, "I really have no response to that.
Warren Ellis
#47. In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
Lord Chesterfield
#48. If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.
Ronnie Lott
#49. I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me.
Richard Sherman
#50. To WOW, you must differentiate yourself, which means do something a little unconventional and innovative. You must do something that's above and beyond what's expected. And whatever you do must have an emotional impact on the receiver.
Tony Hsieh
#51. The correct use of a strong cipher is a clear boon to sender and receiver, but the misuse of a weak cipher can generate a very false sense of security.
Simon Singh
#52. When one person attempts to "fix it" for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.
David W. Earle
#53. I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer.
David Wolpe
#54. Exhausted after a full day of treating patients, William Carlos Williams angrily answered the phone. "Doctor," said a woman's voice, "my child has swallowed a mouse." "Then get him to swallow a cat," he replied, and slammed down the receiver.
Ross Wetzsteon
#55. Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source.
Candace Pert
#56. Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
Fanny Burney
#57. Both the vessel and the receiver must be chosen carefully according to the nature of the ting to be distilled.
Karen Maitland
#58. Barry Sanders, by far. Not only one of my favorite Lions, but one of my favorite NFL athletes. It's all about highlights for me, I'm a receiver! Sanders is like the NFL version of an And1 mix tape.
Nate Burleson
#59. It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.
Steve Largent
#60. Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.
Sivananda
#61. Emma, your granddad's on the line," says Artemis, putting her hand over the receiver. "Something about the night bus and he'll never trust you again?
Sophie Kinsella
#62. [On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.
Chuck Klosterman
#63. We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.
Bill Cowher
#64. That sound, the sound of a shell inserted into the receiver of the shotgun changed everything.
Perry Perrett
#65. The mind of the man who receives gifts is acted on by the mind of the giver, so the receiver is likely to become degenerated. Receiving gifts is prone to destroy the independence of the mind, and make us slavish. Therefore, receive no gifts.
Swami Vivekananda
#66. Henry looks from my face back to the field, and his eyes pop open wide. I turn to see why he's gaping: JJ and Carter are messing around, trying
to shove a scrawny wide receiver into Jerry Rice's stroller.
"JJ!" Henry yells, "You can't fit a freshman in that stroller.
Miranda Kenneally
#67. You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw it.
John Madden
#68. The absolute worst thing a receiver can do is worry about not catching the ball or about getting hit.
Jerry Rice
#69. The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.
Khushwant Singh
#70. Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.
Amartya Sen
#71. That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#72. I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.
Alan Chadwick
#73. Every fatline receiver in the Web, Outback, galaxy, and universe would monitor the squirt, but only the Consul's ship could decode it. Or so she hoped. The
Dan Simmons
#74. Grace gives without the receiver realizing how great the gift really is.
Rebecca Pippert
#75. That receiver was as wide open as Annabel Chong.
Dennis Miller
#76. Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. The telephone is your theater, your stage. Your receiver is your curtain. When it goes up, make yourself a star.
Nancy J. Friedman
#79. The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake
#80. A wide receiver like me wouldn't have won. The quarterback - or even the running back - always wins.
Patrick Wilson
#81. On an impulse, I reached for the telephone, and then paused with the receiver in my hand. I stared down at the phone for long seconds, rehearsing the words I would say in my mind. I felt a tremble in my fingers, and my breathing became short as if I had been running.
Jason Luke
#82. A lot of times, I go and face the top receiver, and that's a task ... it comes with the territory, and I never back down from that challenge.
Johnathan Joseph
#83. Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said, partly because I was only half awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down
Raymond Chandler
#85. Unsolicited advice is usually more about the needs of the giver than the receiver.
Charles F. Glassman
#86. Carl just needed to hear the clink of glasses, the glug of a drink being poured. I picked up the phone, shaking a tumbler of ice near the receiver so Carl could imagine his gin.
Gillian Flynn
#87. When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
Joe Theismann
#88. The giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
Laura Huxley
#89. When I first came into the league, I was with Tim Dwight in San Diego, and a guy named Eric Parker, who really showed me the work ethic it takes to be an NFL receiver, and I've really tried to keep that with me.
Wes Welker
#90. Intuition is like a radio station.. No, intuition is more like a radio receiver and it can receive different stations. This radio receiver serves different functions, it serves your spirituality which is the development of your soul. It serves your physical survival.
Gary Zukav
#91. My comedic instinct, is a little bit more rooted in - my mother's British so I've always been more of the dry receiver of the crazy as opposed to the initiator of the crazy. I'm kind of predisposed to be the straight man.
Jason Bateman
#92. Indian sages avoided the written word as they realized ideas were never definitive; they were transformed depending on the intellectual and emotional abilities of the giver as well as the receiver.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#93. Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.
Tony Gonzalez
#94. It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.
Joseph Batten
#95. I twist like a flower
at the sound of your voice
But you leave the receiver
static most days
You have me growing into a dial tone
All it would take is your voice
saying my name
And I would behead myself
to be carried around on your lapel
Kait Rokowski
#96. For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.
T. Harv Eker
#97. We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is.
Martin Chalfie
#98. Communication is not about the sender or receiver; it's about the sending. And that's done with language.
Richard O'Barry
#99. I can be a receiver, a cornerback, a safety and quarterback-I can play everything.
Clinton Portis
#100. The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift.
Oprah Winfrey
