Charles Blondin Quotes & Sayings

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say "tell the truth", and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point? - Sadie Carter (Red Pyramid) — Rick Riordan

And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors' time the mayor was elected anyhow, and kicked out at will, and that the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots. — Isaac Asimov

You have to be tough. — Mike Ditka

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. — H.L. Mencken

The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm. — Jack White

I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time. — Michael Mosley

Two tires fly. Two wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs. — Neal Stephenson

Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the economy. You can feel more prosperous in a one-room cottage than most wealthy people feel in a twenty-room mansion. Misers will hoard a lot of money and spendthrifts will spend whatever they have - you don't have to do either to feel prosperous. You may have to give up your secure, high-paying corporate job, however - and grow spiritually in the process. — Ernie J Zelinski

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control. — Pauline Kael

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it. — Lights

So fell Lord Perth," he said, "and the countryside did shake with that thunder. — Stephen King

I travel all over the world, I just open a book and away I go. — Steve Altier

Do you know what I think Jesus Christ would do if He came now? He would go to church and chapel ever so many times and listen, and no one would speak to him. He would look to see who sat round Him and He would see no ragged people, no thieves, no harlots, only respectable people. And He would hear all these respectable people singing hymns to Christ, and giving all the glory to Christ, and then after standing it a long time, Jesus would stand up some day in the middle of the church and just say two words, 'Damn Christ! — W. Sydney Robinson