Running Quotes - Page 23

• Game, set, match equals tennis. Set, match, run equals arson.

  Demetri Martin

  Games, Tennis, Arson

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• I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.

  Demetri Martin

  Numbers, Machines, Atm

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• I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.

  Steve Martin

  Beer, Men, Gambling

  "Comedians pull rank in 'Sgt. Bilko'" by Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. March 29, 1996.

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• Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.

  Steve Martin

  Projects, Company, Built

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• Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

  Redd Foxx

  Uncles, Men, Junk

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mother, Respect, Home

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.32, Zondervan

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• The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

  Hugh Sidey

  Eye, Men, People

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• Remember that guy who got gored by a bull and the bull pulled his underwear off and he had to run around the ring naked? If that footage comes out, I'll run that.

  Jon Stewart

  Guy, Underwear, Naked

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• Navigation is about wayfinding, you can't treat it as separate because many other things run parallel with it. If you look at studies in wayfinding, everything from exhibit design to building the cathedrals, it's about creating a complete system. It's about looking at the whole.

  Clement Mok

  Creating, Design, Looks

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• One day I was running around playing with my son Connor when afterwards I was sweating, tired and out of breath. I was embarrassed that something as enjoyable as playing with my son was so tough for me to do. Immediately I started an extensive diet and exercise plan. It completely changed my life and helped cure my Type-2 diabetes.

  Drew Carey

  Tired, Son, Exercise

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They think I'm silly. I do silly things. I fall down and run into things. I talk to inanimate objects. I'll hold a pickup stick to my ear and say, "What? What's that? I can't hear you

  Stephen Colbert

  Silly, Fall, Thinking

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• Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important; in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Mistake, Order

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• Isn't this a wonderful country? I was in Florida. I'm staying at a motel called the Three Palms. It's run by a middle-aged couple, one of whom is missing a hand. OK! That's what I thought, too! But they got upset when I asked.

  Emo Philips

  Country, Couple, Florida

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• When I was a kid, my favourite time of the year when I was child was that magical first snowfall. I'd yell Yippee! Snow! and run up to the front door and shout You know the deal... You have to let me in now.

  Emo Philips

  Children, Kids, Doors

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• I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

  Emo Philips

  Kids, Names, Backyards

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• Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.

  Edwina Currie

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• It's always the guy who gets the diarrhea on the commercial at an inconvenient moment. As if you've ever been in a situation: 'You know, this would be a great time to get the runs, you think? I mean the sun's out, we're on the ferris wheel - what are we waiting for?

  Richard Jeni

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

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• What we want to do is raise the bare minimum amount that will give us a large enough microphone to effectively convey our message. Unfortunately, $20 million is critical mass in terms of running an effective campaign in New York.

  David Brenner

  New York, Giving, Campaigns

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• You could place one product in a first-run telecast, a second product what that program is rerun, and a third product when the show goes into syndication, and another product when it goes on cable.

  David Brenner

  Goes On, Reruns, Firsts

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• Obama is running again for spite.

  Mort Sahl

  Spite

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2011

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• David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. 
  (on David Beckham)

  Alex Ferguson

  Play, Scotland, Goal

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• I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.

  George W. Bush

  President, Anxious, Whatever It Takes

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• You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.

  Artie Shaw

  Beautiful, I Like You, Women

  " Artie Shaw, the Reluctant 'King of Swing'", NPR, March 8, 2002.

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• P. Diddy's gonna be exhausted, you know, running with the Olympic torch in one hand and the torch he'll always carry for J-Lo in the other.

  Doug Benson

  Hands, Torches, Exhausted

  "Best Week Ever". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2004-.

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• Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

  Ray Romano

  Brother, Mirrors, Entering

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”, Bantam

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