R Westbrook Quotes & Sayings

There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it. — Russell Westbrook

I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people. — Jimi Westbrook

Staying on the path of who you are and not trying to be anyone else is the key to anything you're doing. — Jimi Westbrook

Since the days of Peter the Great, Russia had looked to the West for her civilization, even to the extend of adopting French as a second language - or as a first for people of station and learning. The United States, recently cut loose politically from England, still drew heavily on the Old World for her art, literature, science and philosophy. Intellectuals from both nations flocked to Europe in search of eduction and aesthetic stimulation, and many became so enthralled with European civilization that they failed to return. In Russia as well as in the United States many an indignant patriot would rant about the need for serving European apron strings. — Perry D. Westbrook

It is better to have loved and lost, than to have paid for it and not liked it" UNKNOWN — Bill Westbrook

I actually have a closet that's all shoes, maybe 700 pairs. — Russell Westbrook

Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up. — Russell Westbrook

Be careful what you want, for you will get it. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

I am a member of the rabble in good standing. — Westbrook Pegler

I say, 'Why not' to everything. — Russell Westbrook

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive. — Westbrook Pegler

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. — Westbrook Pegler

I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said. — Russell Westbrook

My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what's wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what's right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn't nothing good outside for me. — Russell Westbrook

Food is the most primitive form of comfort. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

I have learned that part of the formula for success is to keep quiet about your objective until you get it. Just as the universe is filled with positive energy waiting to join your own, there is also destructive energy emanating from people who do not like you. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day. — Russell Westbrook

If I get to know somebody, I'll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things. — Russell Westbrook

It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective. — Westbrook Pegler

From the time I sang my first solo in church when I was probably 12 years old, I was bitten by the bug. From that point on, I never wanted to do anything else. — Jimi Westbrook

I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes. — Russell Westbrook

You just never know when you're going into eternity. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

meantime, here is a list of degrees for five of the nerdiest writers: J. STEWART BURNS BS Mathematics, Harvard University MS Mathematics, UC Berkeley DAVID S. COHEN BS Physics, Harvard University MS Computer Science, UC Berkeley AL JEAN BS Mathematics, Harvard University KEN KEELER BS Applied Mathematics, Harvard University PhD Applied Mathematics, Harvard University JEFF WESTBROOK BS Physics, Harvard University PhD Computer Science, Princeton University — Simon Singh

So much of our future lies in preserving our past. — Peter Westbrook

We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to anticipate with preventive action! ... The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over ... — Westbrook Pegler

My Nana Westbrook, true as a saint's prayer, always used to say the Devil was a woman thought up by the Good Lord Himself to test a man's mettle and drag him down to Hell if he came up short and, Lordy, I sure as hell kept my granny's wise words to heart, God rest her soul, never once dipping my stick in a place where it might get snapped. — Ojo Blacke

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. — Westbrook Pegler

I have fears, but I do not fear anything or anybody on the court. — Russell Westbrook