Quotes & Sayings About Mickey

McDonald's, he thought. Why couldn't she have wanted Mickey D's. Or Pizza Hut. Taco Hell - — J.R. Ward

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it. — Mickey Hart

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book. — Mickey Spillane

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job. — Mickey Rourke

The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged. But the thing I didn't know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you're wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don't land right. — Mickey Rourke

Joe Louis was one of my closest friends ... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside. — Mickey Rooney

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball. — Mickey Mantle

He sure is a crazy one," she said. "Sure reminds me of my husband that run away. Just exactly the same guy. I sure hope my Mickey don't grow up that way, they all do now. — Jack Kerouac

A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action. — Mickey Gilley

In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven, it's volatile as hell. Got that? Me neither. — Mickey Rourke

I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings. — Mickey Sumner

In the beginning, I was actually embarrassed to admit that I wanted to be an actor. — Mickey Sumner

The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres. — Steve Ovett

Best friends stick together. — Mickey Mouse

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due. — Mickey Mantle

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card. — Johnny Bench

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans. — Mickey Kaus

I'm not anti-immigration. — Mickey Kaus

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal. — Mickey Rourke

Though she was intrigued by someone like Claude, the love affairs of a real lesbian like Petit were a matter of complete indifference to Mickey. It seemed to me that our indifference, the indifference of the 'normal' world, made the life of such women even more tragic. For they suffered from their loves, like any other woman, but without the balm of sympathy and understanding. — Tereska Torres

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else. — Mickey Hart

When I was a player, I worried only about myself. Good money and easy work. — Mickey Cochrane

I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I asked him, 'Well, was I really crazy?' And he nodded and said, 'You were but not any more.' — Mickey Rourke

Mickey: I told you to stay behind.
Martha: You looked like you needed help. Besides, you're the one who persuaded me to go freelance.
Mickey: Yeah, but - we're being fired at by a Sontoran. A dumpling with a gun. And this is no place for a married woman.
Martha: Well then. You shouldn't have married me.
Above them, The Doctor takes out the Sontoran.
Mickey: If we go in here, and down to the factory floor, and down past that corridor. Then he won't know that we're here. Martha sees the Doctor.
Martha: Mickey. Mickey.
-Doctor Who — Russell T. Davies

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy. — Jermaine Jackson

It gave me a second chance. I'd like everybody to have a second chance if they need it, so I'm trying to let people know how important it is to become an organ donor. — Mickey Mantle

Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road.
Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass — John Ringo

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. — Mickey Spillane

It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face. — Mickey Mantle

Jobs described Mike Markkula's maxim that a good company must "impute"- it must convey its values and importance in everything it does, from packaging to marketing. Johnson loved it. It definitely applied to a company's stores. " The store will become the most powerful physical expression of the brand," he predicted. He said that when he was young he had gone to the wood-paneled, art-filled mansion-like store that Ralph Lauren had created at Seventy-second and Madison in Manhattan. " Whenever I buy a polo shirt, I think of that mansion, which was a physical expression of Ralph's ideals," Johnson said. " Mickey Drexler did that with the Gap. You couldn't think of a Gap product without thinking of the Great Gap store with the clean space and wood floors and white walls and folded merchandise. — Walter Isaacson

When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile. — Mark Hamill

Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal. — Branch Rickey

Billy copied Casey to a 'T.' — Mickey Mantle

I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too. — Mickey Mantle

Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter. — Walt Disney

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do. — Mickey Sumner

Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead. — Mickey Rourke

Nowadays, it is fashionable for agents to be out. When you call them, they're always "out." It's in, you see, to be out. If they're in, they're out. So, they're always out. That way, they'll be in. — Mickey Rooney

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are. — Mickey Hart

I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel. — Mickey Mantle

Gap was essentially the American wardrobe that was well-priced, and it was attractive, and it was happy, and it had great color, and it has jeans, and I think we did the same with Old Navy. And I think we do the same with J.Crew at a much higher level, Madewell at another level. — Mickey Drexler

If the public likes you, you're good. — Mickey Spillane

If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you'll direct.' — Mickey Rooney

Walt famously said that it-- "it" being being the Disney empire--all started with a mouse, but the mouse was created because the rabbit was purloined. — Leslie Le Mon

You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time. — Amy Welborn

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design. — Mickey Hart

Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet. — Robin Williams

When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands. — Mickey Wright

Dont retire - inspire ... Theres a lot to be done — Mickey Rooney

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy. — Mickey Rourke

It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble. — Mickey Rourke

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know. — Mickey Mantle

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.' — Mickey Rourke

I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing. — Mickey Mantle

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. — James Nesbitt

My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,' — Mickey Rooney

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed. — Mickey Kaus

Humph." She peered down suspiciously as he parted the leaves to reveal the choke. "That doesn't look very tasty."
"That's because it isn't," he said. "Pay heed: the artichoke is a shy vegetable. She covers herself in spine-tipped leaves that must be carefully peeled away, and underneath shields her treasure with a barricade o' soft needles. They must be tenderly, but firmly, scraped aside. Ye must be bold, for if yer not, she'll never reveal her soft heart."
He finished cutting away the thistles and placed the small, tender heart on the center of her plate.
She wrinkled her nose. "That's it? But it's so small."
"Ah, and d'ye judge a thing solely upon size alone?"
She made a choking sound. — Elizabeth Hoyt

I got a kick out of having a big bankroll in my pocket. Even if I only made a couple hundred dollars, I'd always keep it in fives and tens so it'd look big. — Mickey Cohen

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road. — Mickey Gilley

If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.' — Mickey Mantle

Mickey represented an honest product, a pure spirit and a cheerful heart, a sort of staggeringly simple pleasure in the exercise of the imagination. — Eve Zibart

The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern. — Mickey Wyte

The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.' — Mickey Edwards

There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it. — Mickey Gilley

There's this bubblegum pop thing which is prevalent now that we haven't had before. People's ears are slightly de-tuned; they've been exposed to this weird synthetic, implausibly upbeat, Mickey Mouse stuff which I think is just weird; it's not really a human sound. — Teddy Thompson

I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that. — Warren Spector

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved. — Mickey Rourke

Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him. — Mickey Mantle

The author relates that Mickey Mantle did not expect to play one day and showed up extremely hung over. He was nevertheless called on to pitch and smashed a towering home run to an enthusiastic ovation. He related to his teammates, Those people don't know how tough that was. — Jim Bouton

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things. — Mickey Drexler

When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform. — Mickey Rooney

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?' — Mickey Mantle

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. — Mickey Spillane

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock. — Frans De Waal

King Mickey- "Even in the Darkest of Darkness, there is always a Light". — Shiro Amano

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone ... — Mickey Rourke

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that. — Mickey Rourke

You bring any cannoli?' Mickey whispered, trying to downplay his worry with humor.
'No, but I'm keeping my gun no matter what he says. — Genevieve Dewey

I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was the kind of kid who was really good at homework. — Mickey Sumner

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short. — Mickey Rooney

About losing a spot on The Mickey Mouse Club to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera: I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going. — Jessica Simpson

And some people have less star appeal than others, but sometimes they shine far brighter than those with more. — Mickey Leigh

There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse. — John Lasseter

Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy. — Mickey Rourke

I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation. — Mickey Rooney

Service drives a lot of my decisions. — Mickey Drexler

I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years. — Mickey Rooney

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast. — Mickey Rooney

I read all the time ... I read a lot of history books. — Mickey Spillane

As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game. — Warren Spector

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. — Walt Disney

My dad likes to take the mickey out of me for saying everything is 'amazing.' — Amy Nuttall

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good. — Keith Hernandez

After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale. — Mickey Mantle

Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick. — Reggie Jackson

Those people don't know how tough that really was. — Mickey Mantle

They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing. — Mickey Mantle

I don't think I'd want Mickey Mouse pimping for me anyway. — Haruki Murakami

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer. — Mickey Spillane