Top 26 Standby Quotes
#1. Let me just say this right now, in case there's any confusion in 2016: If you're a white person and you have references on standby to verify that you're allowed to say the N-word, you are probably the last person on planet Earth who should be saying nigga.
Phoebe Robinson
#2. I have an extra set of eyelashes because you never know. I could cry or laugh, or it could be windy, and I'll need a standby pair.
Niecy Nash
#3. You can't spell "parentry" without "try." Of course, you'll make a few mistakes. The important thing is that the mistakes you make with your kids are the same ones your parents made with you. At least you know how those turn out.
Stephen Colbert
#5. Yeah, he'd been trained to be good with details, but once his dick started working, his brain generally shifted to standby.
Pamela Clare
#6. The Scriptures show numerous instances when gospel truths are brought out in different orders, argued for using different premises, and applied to hearts in distinctive ways. It is clear that Paul does not feel an obligation to give the whole gospel picture to his audience in one sitting.
Timothy Keller
#7. *Always schedule enough time between connections. I always like to give myself at least two hours between flights. It's much easier to sit in the terminal for three hours than it is to sit on standby for two days because you missed your connection.
Morgan Carver Richards
#8. No matter where I am, especially when I'm on tour around the country, Caesar salad is my standby. In a random city and eating in random to-go restaurants, you're kind of scared about trying things, but you can always count on a Caesar salad.
Sasha Cohen
#9. The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'
Jerry Seinfeld
#10. At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?
Matt Gonzalez
#11. The dear Archdeacon is getting so absent-minded. He read a list of box-holders for the opera as the First Lesson the other Sunday, instead of the families and lots of the tribes of Israel that entered Canaan. Fortunately no one noticed the mistake.
Saki
#12. My skin is a bit sensitive, so Cetaphil is my standby. I also use toner and a light layer of moisturizer - I use a lot of Kiehl's and other natural brands.
Claire Danes
#13. Everyone had their levers. Often it was greed. Greed was a reliable old standby. Sometimes it was pride. That was Groat's lever. He desperately wanted promotion; you could see it in his eyes. Find the lever, and then it was plain sailing.
Terry Pratchett
#14. All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.
John D. MacDonald
#16. I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could.
Bobby Wallace
#17. When in doubt, I can stare blankly. The rubber face. There's only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that's your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?
Jon Stewart
#18. Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!
Julia Roberts
#19. Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
J.G. Ballard
#20. Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature
screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon
the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.
John Roecker
#21. Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.
Jeffrey Archer
#22. Greetings. My name is Don Tillman and I am a suspected paedophile. I wish to put myself on standby for an assessment.
Graeme Simsion
#23. Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#24. What about the old standby of kicking a guy in the groin?"
"Try to."
Love to ...
Kresley Cole
#25. Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.
Gloria Steinem
#26. The relationship between a perfect cup of coffee and a writer is just like the couple who always standby and feel proud of being committed to each other.
Himmilicious
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