Top 100 Simmons Quotes
#1. If Pete Simmons had been twenty, he might have asked a lot of bullshit questions that didn't matter.
Stephen King
#2. I'd love to have a big old hug with Richard Simmons.
Blake Shelton
#3. I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.
Richard Simmons
#4. The only exercise guru then was Richard Simmons - a flamboyant fuzzy-haired creature who vaguely resembled a gay Bozo the Clown, unless that's redundant, which I, thank God, have no way of knowing, having no, thank God, direct
Carrie Fisher
#5. I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.
Jason Newsted
#6. Sometimes he'd dream of hunting for Adam the Usurper twenty years in the future, or of Doctor Simmons sending Aero to burrow into his head and steal his most secret thoughts and desires.
Alesha Escobar
#7. I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it.
Yo Gotti
#8. Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.
Michael Eric Dyson
#9. I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
Kevin Hart
#10. When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
Roy Lichtenstein
#11. [T]he man who accused Richard Simmons of slapping him in an airport has dropped the assault charge. Dropped it! Upon hearing the news, Simmons sadly responded, You mean I'm not going to prison?
Dennis Miller
#12. It's hard to march purposefully, or in any other way, when your thighs are screaming like Richard Simmons in a candy store- good God, stop the madness.
P.C. Cast
#13. I would not want to be Richard Simmons ... right now or anytime. He seems like a nice guy, but if I had to dress like that? That would absolutely suck.
Blake Shelton
#14. I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
Gary Cole
#15. I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson
#16. I admire Russell Simmons. He is a successful dude that has done a little bit of everything. He keeps it moving, and he's still doing things. Larry David is also amazing. He is honest and blunt. A creative genius.
J. B. Smoove
#17. Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss".
Bill Maher
#18. After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she's gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that he is really, really, really, really gay.
Norm MacDonald
#19. I bought all those [fitness] videos
Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.
Dolly Parton
#20. I think that's what Reverend Simmons would call fixating on the speck in your neighbor's eye while ignoring the fucking plank in your own." "Reverend
Nicole Williams
#21. Their empty drinking cups pounding on the table in revolt. "Fill de cup or we piss in de pot!" Okay, Cal led the chant, but Simmons hit his cup on the table along with him.
Stacey Marie Brown
#22. In Divorce American style, there was the discomfort of seeing one of the beautiful wasted actresses of the screen, Jean Simmons. Her suggestions of sensibility - what she embodies - were too fine for the world of that movie. Her presence made the movie she was trapped in seem uglier.
Jean Simmons
#23. Can't nobody make us do a thang once we git hard against it. And if anybody don't like that, you don't have to explain a thang to'm. All you got to say is, 'I'm Charlotte Simmons, and I don't hold with thangs like 'at.' And they'll respect you for that.
Tom Wolfe
#24. Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons.
Mr. Burns
Matt Groening
#25. The hottest trash-disco star in the world: Ke$ha! She has a lot in common with Kiss, actually, even spelling her name with a dollar sign the way Gene Simmons probably always wanted to.
Rob Sheffield
#26. I am not going to say I have never spoken with Bill Simmons because I have. I respect him greatly.
Katie Nolan
#27. I always wanted to do a deal with Russell Simmons, and now I've got my signature on a piece of paper with his.
El-P
#28. Like any collectable of any real value, it's priceless to the right owner" -Mr. Simmons
Tara Altebrando
#29. To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the more eager to continue pursuing my dream to make my mark on hip hop music and culture.
Lazarus Of Bethany
#30. When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.
Trent Reznor
#31. Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.
Blake Shelton
#32. And Lenore had served each child several cups of the Simmons eggnog, which was 75 percent rum and 25 percent nog. When they came to pick the children up, all four were stumbling around her living room in a drunken stupor.
Fannie Flagg
#33. Gene Simmons after three months in the Gobi Desert? The Hunchback of Notre Dame following corrective surgery? An escaped Muppet? The drummer from Ratt?
Greg Sestero
#34. My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.
Chris Zylka
#35. The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon - formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
Seamus Heaney
#36. He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.
Dan Quisenberry
#37. No wonder being a real Christian isn't popular. Who wants to suffer so they can find joy?" ~ Dianne Simmons
Michelle Sutton
#38. I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.
Gene Simmons
#39. Random people, celebrities of note come to your shows over the years, and I've had some really strange ones. Like the guy from Kiss. Gene Simmons has literally been in the audience at my shows, like, four times. I don't know if he knows me; he's just a big fan of comedy.
Mike Birbiglia
#40. She could have had a heart attack!" Jenny insisted. "Oh, please, Ruthie's an unstoppable force of nature, like the Black Plague or Richard Simmons.
Molly Harper
#41. Am I the next Bill Simmons? I don't think so. I haven't built a media property. He's the best at finding voices he likes and paying people money to work for him.
Katie Nolan
#42. I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
Malcolm Gladwell
#43. Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.
Gene Simmons
#44. I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
Trent Reznor
#45. If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.
Russell Simmons
#46. No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!
Richard Simmons
#47. Tell me everything you know about the horse, Bottom-san
Dan Simmons
#48. The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
Russell Simmons
#49. You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.
Richard Simmons
#50. Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.
Richard Simmons
#51. Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.
Richard Simmons
#52. There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.
Ruth J. Simmons
#53. I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.
Bill Simmons
#54. To be a true poet is to become God.
I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said. 'Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!'
They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day.
Dan Simmons
#55. Thus evolved some members of the Core - not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy.
Dan Simmons
#56. I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.
Richard Simmons
#57. What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.
Russell Simmons
#58. Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.
Gene Simmons
#59. When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.
Richard Simmons
#60. Knowing that history carried itself in the body and soul, not a physical location, not in letters burned in a fire or a magazine trapped beneath the rubble,
Kristen Simmons
#61. Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth.
Dan Simmons
#62. People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid.
Dan Simmons
#63. Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
Russell Simmons
#64. Aenea heard the music of the spheres. She resonated with the Void Which Binds, which resonates in turn to sentient life and thought, and then she used the almost illimitable energy of the Void to ... to take the first step.
Dan Simmons
#65. The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel.
Dan Simmons
#66. I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.
Laurie Simmons
#67. Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#68. Sol had not known he was lonely until he met Sarai.
Dan Simmons
#69. When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you
Russell Simmons
#71. I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the best version of you.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#72. My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
Gene Simmons
#73. Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.
Gene Simmons
#74. Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#75. No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
Gene Simmons
#76. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.
Dan Simmons
#77. Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.
Dan Simmons
#78. Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.
Dan Simmons
#79. The world as we know it is ending, my friends, no matter what happens to us
Dan Simmons
#80. Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.
Russell Simmons
#81. I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.
Harold Simmons
#82. The words sounded like a mournful incantation.
Dan Simmons
#84. In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it ... Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off.
Russell Simmons
#85. Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
Dan Simmons
#86. I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
Dan Simmons
#87. Forcing school children to recite a national pledge doesn't sound very American to me," said James. "No," agreed Holmes. "It sounds German. Very German.
Dan Simmons
#88. Hell is also the memory of starving children in the slums of Armaghast and the smile of politicians sending boys off to die in colonial wars.
Dan Simmons
#89. James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
Gene Simmons
#90. American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
Russell Simmons
#91. Every day after school, for three hours a day, I would sell those pralines on the street corner. I was just eight years old. I'd bring the money home to my parents and say, "This is just the beginning."
Richard Simmons
#92. He wished he were home in Charleston, listening to the Dave Brubeck Quartet on the stereo and reading Bruce Catton.
Dan Simmons
#93. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
Russell Simmons
#94. I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.
Bill Simmons
#95. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides.
Dan Simmons
#98. All children can do things to help, whether how big or small - by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#99. In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.
Gail Simmons
#100. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.
Gene Simmons
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