Weismuller Quotes & Sayings

This is the day of the reaping. — Suzanne Collins

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

I know a fat girl, she wears an orange skirt. You give her twenty dollars and you can do your work. — LL Cool J

They say there are no atheists in war; I tell you that pantheists abound at the edge of a cliff. I would have taken the blessing of any god I could get. — Marie Brennan

I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster would be good in this part, and so on. With 'L.A. Confidential,' it was like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if Dean Martin played the Kevin Spacey part?' — Brian Helgeland

WHAT THE MIND OF MAN CAN CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, IT CAN ACHIEVE. YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT MOST OF THE TIME. — Andrew Matthews

Modern Roman Catholicism has no quarrel with the Big Bang, with a Universe 15 billion or so years old, with the first living things arising from prebiological molecules, or with humans evolving — Carl Sagan

I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me. — Ted Ligety

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking. — Ai Weiwei

The trick of real combat is that everyone is human — Lelouch Vi Britannia

Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first in the justification. In yon garden she was first to work our wo; let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes first the apple of that bitter tree which brings us all our sorrow; let her be the first to see the Mighty Gardener, who has planted a tree which brings forth fruit unto everlasting life. — Charles Spurgeon

What I've learnt - to my cost - on several occasions in my life, is that people will put up with all manner of bad behaviour so long as you're giving them what they want. They'll laugh and get into it and enjoy the anecdotes and the craziness and the mayhem as long as you're going your job well, but the minute you're not, you're fucked. They'll wipe their hands of you without a second glance. — Russell Brand

Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them. — Maureen O'Sullivan

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."
-from "Song of Myself — Walt Whitman

The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can. — Steve Jobs

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting. — Jodi Picoult

Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink. — Andrew Morton