T'get Quotes

#1. I'm sure a lot of it is my fault," he said. He smiled ruefully. "And by a lot, I mean all."
"Ah, the self-deprecating dude routine," Hannah said. " 'What a lovable fuck-up I am.' The annoying thing is that it makes you look good, but it doesn't get me anything.

Adelle Waldman

#2. For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

Wernher Von Braun

#3. People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.

Pete Hamill

#4. When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!

Calvin Klein

#5. That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

Famke Janssen

#7. You can't go alone."
"He won't see me otherwise. I'll make an appointment. People don't get killed when they make an appointment.

Michael Robotham

#8. We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.

Anna Eshoo

#9. I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle.

Jim Norton

#10. The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it
just don't get lost in it.

Ram Dass

#11. See, Curry, Detective Willis felt I was holding back some information and so he sulked off, like all men do when they don't get their way with women they've fooled around with.

Gillian Flynn

#12. You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Peg Bracken

#13. I found myself wondering what life would be if Jem were different, even from what he was now; what I would do if Atticus did not feel the necessity of my presence, help and advice. Why, he couldn't get along a day without me. Even Calpurnia couldn't get along unless I was there. They needed me.

Harper Lee

#14. I seem to be ready for work, my materials are collected, yet the work doesn't get done! Nothing is done!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. The thing I don't get about paedophilia ... Why the hell do kids find old men in dirty raincoats so sexy?

Frankie Boyle

#16. I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.

Esha Gupta

#17. After that I went home and Sally put what was left of me to bed; next day, being a Christian family, we saluted the happy morn with the Hell and Hades of a row because I wouldn't get up and go to early service, my sister being quite determined that even if I didn't get up. I shouldn't sleep.

Dion Fortune

#18. The more my world spun, the more appealing he became. Don't get me wrong, I still hated him with a passion. His arrogance made me want to scream, but his ability to free me - if only temporarily - from my problems left me high. He was my drug.

Kody Keplinger

#19. I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear.

Denzel Washington

#20. He knocks once against the side. I don't get it at first, and then I laugh.
Let's establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means you'd like to come in.
"Yes, Evan." I'm laughing so hard, it's starting to hurt. "You can come in.

Rick Yancey

#21. If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

Edward Hodnett

#22. It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Richard P. Feynman

#23. Mark had so many questions, he couldn't get them out fast enough.

James Dashner

#24. As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

Spike Jonze

#25. I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

Aaron Allston

#26. In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.

Robert Dessaix

#27. You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good.

Linus Roache

#28. Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

Dan Harmon

#29. When you have children, it's like having your heart beating outside your chest. You can drive yourself crazy wanting to protect them and make sure that nothing harms them. It's a feeling of vulnerability that you can't get around sometimes.

Kevin Griffin

#30. I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

Michel Gondry

#31. I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

W. H. Auden

#32. Happily-ever-afters and everything little girls dream of. He was a cool breeze on a hot day. Electric kisses and mischievous firsts. An addiction I couldn't get out of my system.

Winter Renshaw

#33. When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to start with but you can't get back to sleep. Sleep comes a lot more easily than it comes back.

Victor Hugo

#34. I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

William Monahan

#35. When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.

Charlaine Harris

#36. You don't get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.

Daymond John

#37. If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you don't get the results.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#38. Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.

Candace C. Bowen

#39. Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like you're in a bag and you can't get out and somebody's always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#40. Most Of Your Don't Get The Picture Unless You Got The Flash On!

Lil' Wayne

#41. Mike Dukakis, you know, he can't get a job mowing lawns.

Mitt Romney

#42. I am like a burglar that can't get away, but must go on miserably burgling the same house day after day.
- Bilbo Baggins

J.R.R. Tolkien

#43. I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

Rodney Dangerfield

#44. I'm the only one who leaves the house in my pajamas because I can't get my shit together, nor do I give a shit that I can't get my shit together.

Jen Mann

#45. The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

Frederick Lenz

#46. As a builder, you don't get many stats or achievements, but you get a lot of rewards seeing those players succeed.

Peter Karmanos Jr.

#47. I don't get star-stuck. I love Angelina Jolie, though.

NeNe Leakes

#48. He compared the intelligence task to solving a jigsaw puzzle, except that you didn't get the box cover, so you didn't know what the final picture was. And you got only a few pieces at a time, not all of them. And even worse, you always got a bunch of pieces from some other puzzle thrown in.

P. W. Singer

#49. Alice? You didn't get this far without realizing that you don't have to cheat to win. You just have to accept that people are easily manipulated.

Elle Lothlorien

#50. Public life in this country is too damn dominated by people who'd read more if only their lips didn't get so tired.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#51. When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.

Hedi Slimane

#52. You can't get too much winter in the winter.

Robert Frost

#53. Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

Vanilla Ice

#54. All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Mark Twain

#55. He was a mean man, it's true, but he got ahead. A man gets on by working harder than the rest - that's what he used to say - and if he doesn't get anywhere, he hasn't a soul to blame but himself.

Margaret Laurence

#56. Don't get too close buddy ' I warn Sloth. Unofficially there's a code of conduct but animals are still animals. And animals can be assholes too.

Lauren Beukes

#57. I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.

Kelly Preston

#58. Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.

Cory Booker

#59. In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

Lilly Ledbetter

#60. We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.

Guillermo Del Toro

#61. As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don't get that.

Jerry Seinfeld

#62. There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.

Chris Hadfield

#63. Don't get like these assholes and fall in love with the fighting. Then you're just setting off bombs because you like the noise they make.

Hugh Howey

#64. Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.

Nolan Bushnell

#65. Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.

Sebastian Coe

#66. From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.

Julie Burchill

#67. You don't give out trophies for losing. Trophies for sucking. That's a communist idea. You don't get a trophy for losing. You get a piece of pizza and you shut up. Trophies for losing? What the hell happened to us?

Christopher Titus

#68. If I don't get in the studio, I don't have no therapy.

Shy Glizzy

#69. I fainted last night! Luckily I was going to bed at the time so I didn't get hurt.

Arj Barker

#70. Sisters and brothers just happen, we don't get to choose them, but they become one of our most cherish relationships.

Wes Adamson

#71. If you don't get a kick out of the job you are doing, you better kick it and look for another one. Love what you do or just don't do it.-RVM

R.v.m.

#72. In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda ... coulda ... shoulda.

Jesse Eisenberg

#73. I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to catching everything on the sandlots. But they hit the ball a lot harder in the major leagues and I just couldn't reach the ball this time.

Al Kaline

#74. I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

Will McDonough

#75. Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

Fanny Brice

#76. To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

Robbie Williams

#77. Dick Elpinoy and I didn't get along. He was too hoity-toity for my tastes; I didn't follow rules well enough for his. But now we were united in villainy. Or something.

Lia Habel

#78. The only problem is I can't get into PG-13 Land. I just get stuck in R rated movies, which they would love us to make PG-13 movies but I never get there. But I think that you've got to make them different. You've got to switch them up.

Joel Silver

#79. Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

Ron Moody

#80. FrozenRobot of all people should know that there is nothing beautiful or endearing or glamorous about sadness. Sadness is only ugly, and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't get it.

Jasmine Warga

#81. After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time and I almost gave up. If I had been an Oxbridge bloke after 'Bhaji', my career would have been very different

Gurinder Chadha

#82. I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

Amanda Righetti

#83. I want to go to the next doctor's visit with you," I tell her.

"Okay."

"Don't get too excited about all of this. You'll wake up the baby," I say dryly.

Elle Kennedy

#84. I would be lying if I said I didn't get a kick out of the assignment. Here I am, a "troubled youth," and my self-chosen treatment is to become a stalker. Okay, not stalker. Research Analyst.

Lindsey Leavitt

#85. Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

Alain De Botton

#86. Just because it may take longer, Doesn't mean your dream won't get done.

Robin Sharma

#87. I just ... this wasn't my life. Things like this didn't happen to me, and if they did, it never lasted. Girls like me didn't get guys like Cade.

Cora Carmack

#88. If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.

Marion Motley

#89. It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.

Ben Aaronovitch

#90. This is my sixth series, and I'm burned out wondering if a show is going to change my life. Don't get me wrong, I love when people recognize my work. But I've given up worrying about whether it'll be seen by two people or two million or 22 million.

Charlotte Ross

#91. Brothers you can't get rid of. They get who you are, and what you like, and they don't care who you sleep with or what mistakes you make, because brothers aren't mixed up in that part of your life. They see you at your worst, and they don't care.

Becky Chambers

#92. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

Werner Herzog

#93. I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.

Lara Spencer

#94. It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I never did anything of the sort!' 'Well, we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance,' said Larry.

Gerald Durrell

#95. You don't get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.

Bill Bonner

#96. When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

John Thune

#97. You don't get miracles. You can pray for them. You can wait for them. If you wait, life passes you by. You don't get miracles. If you're lucky, you get your life.

Michelle West

#98. I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

Freya Stark

#99. I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.

Goose Gossage

#100. No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

Lindsay Duncan