Rodney Quotes & Sayings

There are many critics who think the megachurches thrive on people who enjoy dramatic Sunday services with fine music but don't wish to become very 'religious' on a day-to-day basis - that the megachurch appeal is a mile wide and an inch deep. — Rodney Stark

Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive. — Rodney Dangerfield

The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems. — Rodney Brooks

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men. — Rodney Stark

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us. — Rodney King

Philosophy is unbelievably inspiring to me. — Rodney Yee

The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart. — Rodney Yee

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. — Daryl Gates

My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round. — Rodney Dangerfield

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time. — Rodney Brooks

When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York. — Rodney Dangerfield

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me. — Rodney Dangerfield

I'm God's messenger from the gypsy tent. And it's the message that's important, not the messenger. — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style. — Rodney Crowell

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me. — Rodney King

I went to a freak show and they let me in for nothing. — Rodney Dangerfield

Words accrue and lose meaning through a semantic mobility dependent on the community in which they thrive, and these meanings cannot be divorced from bodily sensation and emotion. Slang emerges among a circle of speakers. Irony requires double consciousness, reading one meaning and understanding another. Elegant prose involves a feeling for the rhythms and the music of sentences, a product of the sensual pleasure a writer takes in the sounds of words and the varying metric beats of sentences. Creative translation must take all this into account. If a meaning is lost in one sentence, it might be gained or added to the next one. Such considerations are not strictly logical. They do not involve a step-by-step plan but come from the translator's felt understanding of the two languages involved. Rodney — Siri Hustvedt

Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you would be reading from hand-copied scrolls. — Rodney Stark

Look out for number one and try not to step in number two. — Rodney Dangerfield

I went to see my doctor ... Doctor Vidi-boom-ba. Yeah ... I told him once, "Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror I feel like throwing up. What's wrong with me?" He said, "I don't know, but your eyesight is perfect." — Rodney Dangerfield

With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach. — Rodney Dangerfield

And sometimes you're not noticing a little eye movement that's hilarious. So it all kind of gets figured out in post. And that guy you were watching was this guy Murray Miller, who's actually not an actor, he's a writer that Rodney and I are friends with. He's just crazily funny, especially when hitting on people. — Nicholas Stoller

Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?' — Rodney Dangerfield

Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her. — Rodney Jerkins

My wife and I keep fighting about sex and money. I think she charges me too much. — Rodney Dangerfield

So, you used to come up here, too, and escape all the girl drama?" I said and chuckled when his cheeks turned a little red.
"Nah," he refuted. "It was always these two the girls wanted. The Jacobsons are hot commodities around here."
"Bull crap! You had them eating up those stupid 'I'm a cowboy' stories and you know it," Kyle yelled. "The one about you saving your sister from the bull was classic. Classic!"
"Eat me," Rodney said, embarrassed. — Shelly Crane

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now. — Rodney Brooks

I'm not a rock star, I'm not Seane Corne or Shiva Rea or Rodney Yee or Baron (Baptiste) or John Friend, and thank God, because there's just too much risk of getting hit by flying tomatoes if you stick out that much. — Beryl Bender Birch

Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over? — Rodney Brooks

He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all. — Rodney Crowell

Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance. — Rodney Dangerfield

I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it". — Rodney Dangerfield

She was so fat that her bathtub has stretch marks. — Rodney Dangerfield

Group sex, are you kidding, I had group sex - my wife screwed in front of the jury. — Rodney Dangerfield

I drink too much, way too much; my doctor drew blood he ran a tab! — Rodney Dangerfield

She was so ugly that her face could stop a sundial. — Rodney Dangerfield

I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me. — Rodney Dangerfield

I have a two year old. Just turned two a couple weeks ago, and he is my main man, he is my shadow. Every spare second, I am hanging with him. — Rodney Atkins

I am spiritual. I believe God loves and is pulling for all of us. — Rodney Atkins

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time. — Richard Rodney Bennett

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. — Rodney Dangerfield

Everyone says that looks don't matter, age doesn't matter, money doesn't matter. But i never met a girl yet who has fallen in love with an old ugly man who's broke. — Rodney Dangerfield

You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin — Rodney Crowell

I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together. — Rodney Atkins

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. — Rodney Atkins

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table. — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they're fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together. — Vonda Shepard

Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it's different when I open the door the kids hand me candy. — Rodney Dangerfield

High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even where socialization is different, and so does crime and delinquency. — Rodney Stark

Pride starts with the penis. — Rodney Ross

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes. — Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it. — Rodney Dangerfield

Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music. — Rodney Yee

To put it plainly, women enjoyed higher status and more autonomy among Christians than among pagans, and could expect better treatment from their husbands. Pagan Roman women were "three times as likely as Christians to have married before age 13," according to the sociologist Rodney Stark.3 Christian women also exercised far more choice in whom they wed, and were less likely to be forced into an abortion (a frequent cause of death for women of the time). — Vincent Carroll

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief. — Rodney Mullen

When I got back into show business in 1961, I felt - for obvious reasons - that nothing in my life went right, and I realized that millions of people felt the same way. So when I first came
back my catch phrase was "nothing goes right." Early on, that was my setup for a lot of jokes. — Rodney Dangerfield

The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen. — Rodney Brooks

I rapped on the door. By which I mean I knocked on it, not that I did a little MC-ing. But if I had've done a little MC-ing, it would've been quite angry stuff, like NWA when they're on about the Rodney King incident. Only I'd have made it less about police brutality and more about old Devon men ripping young folk off with their made-up stories of broken down cars. And there I think you'll find the main difference between British and American crime. — Danny Wallace

The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that this practice and this tool helps other people be centered, be present, and helps them really [be] embodied and [have] a life. — Rodney Yee

A man in the crowd asks: Hey Rodney, how'd you get started? Rodney: I was 12 years old, alone in my room, and I got started! — Rodney Dangerfield

We learned sexual technique from our dog. He taught how to beg, and he taught my wife how to roll over and play dead. — Rodney Dangerfield

Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice
one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life. — Rodney Yee

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. — Rodney Dangerfield

Being saved by discipleship is not a human possibility, but for God all things are possible. — Rodney Combs

Yeah, but I ain't worried about it, Rodney said, — Richard Price

Went to a bar for a few drinks. The bartender asked what I wanted. "Surprise me", I said. So he showed me a naked picture of my wife. — Rodney Dangerfield

When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience. — Kathryn Bigelow

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it. — Rodney Dangerfield

My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night it was to time an egg. — Rodney Dangerfield

I knew a girl so ugly, she had a face like a saint-a Saint Bernard! — Rodney Dangerfield

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us. — Rodney Brooks

The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children's home that I was adopted from called Holston Home. — Rodney Atkins

They change the sheets every day ... from one bed to another. — Rodney Dangerfield

I told my wife 'hey honey come on, let's make love like the old days.' She asked me for 50 bucks. — Rodney Dangerfield

So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction. — Rodney Brooks

I don't often agree with me either; there's much, in fact, with which I disagree. But that's probably because I'm so dashed ingenious that I haven't a clue what I'm saying. — Rodney Ulyate

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back — Rodney Dangerfield

Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice. — Rodney Yee

My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill. — Rodney Dangerfield

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. — Rodney Dangerfield

When we got married my wife told me I was one in a million. I found out she was right. — Rodney Dangerfield

Coming to Haramara is like coming home. My body returns to the earth, my mind mesmerized by the rhythms of the ocean and my spirit flies in this magical place. Yoga is a way of life and Haramara Retreat is where we can re-educate ourselves to live in balance. — Rodney Yee

When it comes to sex, at my age I like threesomes. In case one of us dies. — Rodney Dangerfield

You take care and I hope I'll run into you - when I'm driving. — Rodney Dangerfield

I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house ... so he moved. — Rodney Dangerfield

My daughters been picked up so many times she's starting to grow handles — Rodney Dangerfield

A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced. — Rodney Crowell

An axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourself
no one else can know you — Rodney Hall

Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money. — Rodney Dangerfield

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts. — Steven Rodney McQueen

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor. — Walter Rodney

Our children are our most important assets. — Rodney Erickson

To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God. — Rodney Collin

We decided to read our emails out loud to the group in order to share the warmth and optimism the messages contained. One of the most heartwarming was from the father of Petty Officer Rodney "RaRa" Young of Katy, Texas. His dad got right to the point: "You'd better come home because you promised to help me put up a fence, and I could really use that help." Everyone laughed because the words took us back to the normal world and out of the anxious monotony of our detention. — Shane Osborn

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother. — Rodney Dangerfield

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed. — Richard Rodney Bennett

My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch. — Rodney Dangerfield

It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had. — Rodney Mullen

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie. — Rodney Dangerfield

A whole lot of Americans have never met a Mormon. — Rodney Stark