Wilford Brimley The Thing Quotes & Sayings

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you. — Jaggi Vasudev

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night
come floating in on the tide,
bumping up against the rocks and
rolling up on the beaches;
it must be Halloween in the sea — Richard Brautigan

The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but i think they do it to make us feel important — Ned Vizzini

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim. — Wilford Brimley

I rise with every sunrise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I like my cinema gritty, I like my eggs gritty. — David Letterman

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack. — Wilford Brimley

I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks. — Wilford Brimley

I hate Twitter. I think it's disgusting. It's ridiculous that you as a stranger can type something to me, and I see it. Technology has gone too far ... — Gabourey Sidibe

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in. — Wilford Brimley

I've got about $30,000 in chips, not near enough. — Wilford Brimley

I feel a shaking in me, and it's the ground. It's like the ground is shaking and I will slip through.
Then, in a flash, his hands reach out and, like in a movie, really, the coffee cup falls to the cement steps with a sharp crack, and he grabs my arms and his face is filled with everything that is urgent and loving and meaningful in the world.
I feel so powerful, like a god, thunderbolt in hand.
And my thunderbolt hit. — Megan Abbott

I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me. — Wilford Brimley

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is. — Wilford Brimley

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth. — Wilford Brimley

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job. — Wilford Brimley

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch. — Wilford Brimley

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us. — Wilford Brimley

always remember that it is progress, not perfection, you should be looking for. — The Arbinger Institute

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family. — Wilford Brimley

I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler. — Ally Carter

I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish. — Wilford Brimley

Desire is the key to motivation, but determination, commitment, and actions are the keys to success. — Debasish Mridha

My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends. — Wilford Brimley

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do. — Wilford Brimley

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning. — Wilford Brimley

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky. — Wilford Brimley

I'm not a human or a demon anymore. In which case.. I'll have to be an Exorcist! — Kazue Kato

I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world. — Dolly Parton

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. — Stephen King

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land. — Wilford Brimley

It's a lot more than clicking the shutter ... it's the ideas, it's the visual voice, it's the telling the story, it's kind of going beyond that initial thing that just means you happened to be there at the right time. — Ron Haviv

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it. — Wilford Brimley

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler. — Wilford Brimley