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Evel Knievel Quotes

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.

Evel Knievel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 17, 1938 - November 30, 2007

Topics

People Me Tough Prison Look Human

When I first did 'Best in Show,' I had never done any improvisation.

Jim Piddock

Best Done Never First Improvisation

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

Mayer Hawthorne

Love Music Cool Enemy Relationships

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.

Jean Seberg

Life Better Learn Long Acting Know

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

Betrayal Nothing Who Knows Ecstasy

Another fine mess you've gotten me into.

Stan Laurel

Me You Mess Fine Another Gotten

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Louise Bogan

Childhood Hell Cannot Remain Becomes

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

Jonathan Haidt

Me Say Religions Degree Most Some

In swimming, especially training out in the ocean and open water, you got fogged-over goggles, you're stuck with your own thoughts - there's great benefits to that, deep thinking like that after many hours, but there's also tremendous loneliness. You burn out. You want to run, jump, ski, do anything. So at age 30, I was finished.

Diana Nyad

Age Great Loneliness Water Ocean

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

Diane von Furstenberg

Travel High Rough Different Depends

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Douglas Fairbanks

Time Man Out High Keep Something

When I met my wife Vicky's family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that I wasn't anything like their idea of a musician.

Chris Cornell

Family Wife Go Way Out Anything

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

Chico Buarque

Words Writing Look Find Choice