Top 100 Rodney's Quotes
#2. It's still a trip for me to see somebody that I've only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it's very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner played before us.
Rodney Atkins
#3. If there's an honest man in this world, I haven't seen his carpentry.
Rodney Gomez
#4. People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.
Rodney King
#6. We have a lot of respect and love for Bruschi. But he's gone. That's unfortunate for us, but we have to move on. Just like if I got injured they'd have to move on without me. That's just part of the game. That's reality.
Rodney Harrison
#7. My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.
Rodney Dangerfield
#8. I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.
Rodney King
#9. Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice
one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.
Rodney Yee
#10. I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.
Kathy Valentine
#11. Everyone says that looks don't matter, age doesn't matter, money doesn't matter. But i never met a girl yet who has fallen in love with an old ugly man who's broke.
Rodney Dangerfield
#12. Brave words in a room full of pulseless creatures. Spade gave Don a disgusted glance while Rodney just licked his lips. No doubt he was mentally salting and peppering Don.
Jeaniene Frost
#13. You don't have body parts there do you?" my mother interrupted. "I don't want to open the fridge and find a head on the shelf" Rodney laughed. "No Justina, it doesn't look like Jeffrey Dahmer's hideaway.
Jeaniene Frost
#14. When someone's really sick and their family is tired and concerned about what will take place, those are the times that they need a support group around them to take care of them as a human being.
Rodney Yee
#16. And my girlfriend, she's FAT! How fat? She's so fat she wears two watches-one for each time zone!
Rodney Dangerfield
#17. Oh, I'm fine! People booby-trap DHDs that I'm working on every day!" Rodney paused. "Actually, that's truer than I'd like.
Jo Graham
#19. A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
Rodney Dangerfield
#20. That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.
Rodney Yee
#21. You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.
Rodney Dangerfield
#22. My daughters been picked up so many times she's starting to grow handles
Rodney Dangerfield
#23. One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What's more reassuring than noticing that some other people, whom you admire, are so certain that it's all true that they're willing to go the ultimate mile?
Rodney Stark
#24. In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.
Rodney S. Quinn
#25. I've learned to control everything. I don't get angry at anything. Somebody can do me wrong. That's life. What good is it to get angry?
Rodney Dangerfield
#26. Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.
Rodney Brooks
#27. I'm living three dreams:
Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's.
Cause we can't get along, no resolution?
'Til we drown all these haters ...
Rest in peace to Whitney Houston
Kanye West
#28. We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.
Rodney Brooks
#29. You don't know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you acquire a facial scar. On the plus side, it's so situated as to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I'm never kissing my dog again.
Rodney Ulyate
#30. Writing is not a noun, it's a verb. Writing is not a destination, it's a journey. You should not write to accomplish anything but to write. Write on!
Rodney L. Carlson
#31. Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her.
Rodney Jerkins
#32. Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
Rodney Dangerfield
#33. That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't get in on the project.
Rodney Jerkins
#34. There's an intelligent redneck in all of us somewhere.
Rodney Atkins
#35. My town has an "Adult" store that's been there for a while, despite the fact that a lot of people protested it during the planning stages, because they thought it would bring drugs and hookers and cheap used furniture into town. Wait. That's Craigslist. Nevermind.
Rodney Lacroix
#36. If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.
Rodney Crowell
#37. Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.
Rodney Yee
#38. When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's.
Rodney Dangerfield
#39. Never guess your wife's size. Just buy anything marked petite and hold on to the receipt.
Rodney Dangerfield
#40. When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.
Rodney Collin
#41. I went to see my doctor ... Doctor Vidi-boom-ba. Yeah ... I told him once, "Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror I feel like throwing up. What's wrong with me?" He said, "I don't know, but your eyesight is perfect."
Rodney Dangerfield
#42. I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.
Rodney Dangerfield
#43. You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed.
Rodney King
#44. It's deep passion for my wife that really makes me vulnerable to her.
Rodney Yee
#45. We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.
Rodney King
#46. Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.
Rodney Yee
#47. In fact, all known societies above the very primitive level have been slave societies - even many of the Northwest American Indian tribes had slaves long before Columbus's voyage.46 Amid this universal slavery, only one civilization ever rejected human bondage: Christendom. And it did it twice!
Rodney Stark
#48. Once I opened up a fortune cookie and inside was the guy's cheque next to me I said hey buddy I got your cheque he said thanks.
Rodney Dangerfield
#49. I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.
Rodney Mullen
#50. It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.
Rodney Dangerfield
#51. I can drink on the job if I want to. I can go on stage with a beer and it's OK. I can say whatever I want. It's a great job to have.
Rodney Carrington
#52. I went to look for a used car and found my wife's dress in the back seat.
Rodney Dangerfield
#53. I'm God's messenger from the gypsy tent. And it's the message that's important, not the messenger.
Rodney "Gipsy" Smith
#54. My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.
Steven Rodney McQueen
#55. Never make sport, no matter how lighthearted, of someone's vocation.
Rodney Ross
#56. My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield
#57. I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.
Rodney Mullen
#58. There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into sharp conflict with people's demands that their material and social needs should be fulfilled. Pg. 10
Walter Rodney
#59. Wonderful," Rodney said again. "I wonder how many more of our former allies are going to have been Culled like this?" "That's what I like about you, McKay," Sheppard said. "You're an optimist.
Jo Graham
#61. What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then he hit me in the balls with a hammer.
Rodney Dangerfield
#62. Write what's in you. Write readily and well. Then edit. Then share or send. Not before.
Rodney Richards
#63. I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.
Rodney Dangerfield
#64. I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.
Rodney Dangerfield
#65. I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.
Richard Rodney Bennett
#66. My sex life is terrible; my wife put a mirror over the dog's bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.
Rodney Dangerfield
#67. Wellness within is mindfulness and acceptance of what you are, what you feel inside and how it's always changing. That process is helped by being attentive to the breath as it moves through the body.
Rodney Yee
#68. I just wait to go elsewhere but I get there and it's the same dusk.
Rodney Ross
#69. I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.
Rodney King
#70. There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past.
Rodney Harrison
#71. As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.
Rodney King
#72. There's so much fear running our lives that we forget to be human when it really counts.
Rodney Yee
#73. I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.
Rodney Atkins
#74. I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.
Rodney Dangerfield
#75. Wilcrest Baptist Church is God's multiethnic bridge that draws all people to Jesus Christ, who transforms them from unbelievers to missionaries.
Rodney M. Woo
#76. My wife was afraid of the dark ... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.
Rodney Dangerfield
#78. I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive ... The refrigerator.
Rodney Dangerfield
#79. Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himself
So our condition makes escape impossible?
we breathe
and it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle
Rodney Hall
#80. It's hard to kiss the lips at night/That chew your ass out all day long.
Rodney Crowell
#81. Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there.
Rodney Atkins
#82. The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.
Rodney Stark
#83. It's reasonable to say that certain things we understand should perhaps have limits on how they're used and how certain technologies are deployed. That's very much what we should do as a society.
Rodney Brooks
#84. The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The crusaders were not barbarians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. They sincerely believed that they served in God's battalions.
Rodney Stark
#85. My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.
Rodney Atkins
#86. The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.
Rodney Brooks
#87. I don't care how rich and successful a man is. He's nothing without an education.
Rodney Dangerfield
#88. Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.
Rodney Stark
#90. When I did 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno was still there, he was very nice but it was surreal. It's like you can't believe you're standing there talking to that person. If you've seen them in a lot of movies or on TV you feel like you know them, just like my fans feel like they know me.
Rodney Atkins
#91. Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?
Steven Rodney McQueen
#92. My body speaks. Actually, it's ready to shout itself hoarse.
Rodney Ross
#93. It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Rodney Dangerfield
#94. A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.
Rodney Dangerfield
#95. Like I'm listening to a garden seashell for the echo of her take-no-prisoners affection, I lay my head against Mom's cold pillow.
Rodney Ross
#96. The book's (Bible's Book of Daniel) importance lies principally in understanding of the geographic and political origination of the Antichrist and its (his) inter-relations with other nations ....
Rodney Wegermann
#97. Every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work towards it's overthrow.
Walter Rodney
#98. So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little tiny bit of common sense. Our robots know that if they've got something in their hand and they drop it, it's gone. They shouldn't go and try and put it down.
Rodney Brooks
#99. In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.
Rodney Crowell
#100. When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip back and forth endlessly between 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'It's Alright, Ma' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' and now my Dylan roots are showing big time.
Rodney Crowell
