Don Rickles Quotes

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Don Rickles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 8, 1926 - April 6, 2017

Topics

ToughThinkTryingYouKnowMilk

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carter

DifferencesHonestReconciliation

I love the flaws and foibles of people - I'm much more interested in that than perfections.

Jessie Buckley

LovePeopleFlawsMoreInterested

I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound.

Jean-Michel Jarre

BirthdayMePressureRememberI Can

Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.

Jeff Bridges

GoodPeopleMental IllnessGunsSure

New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.

Alvaro Enrigue

LifeChildrenTimeCookingNew York

The hardest moments of your life in your 20s will provide some of the greatest lessons that will come in handy later.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

LifeMomentsWillGreatestCome

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

Steven Weber

KnowCivilityOutSureMarketBet

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

Mary Roach

TimeResearchWritingBookReading

No legislation is going to stop a criminal from getting a gun, and anybody who says it will is wrong. Criminals will get a gun no matter what they have to do. They'll steal it. They'll borrow it. They'll have someone else buy it for them.

Mike Bouchard

GunSomeoneWrongStopWillMatter

New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

Donald Hall

AgeOld AgeMeGrowFeelNew

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Christo

BeautyMeWorldEnergyMeetRisk

I had two little daughters - I think they were 7 and 4 at the time - and I said, 'I'll write you a story. What do you want it to be about?' One of them said 'a princess' and the other one said 'a bride.' I said, 'That'll be the title.'

William Goldman

TimeStoryThinkBrideYouPrincess

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