Emmett Kelly Quotes

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Emmett Kelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: entertainer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 9, 1898 - March 28, 1979

Topics

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Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

Jim Morrison

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When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.

John Frame

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'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.

Jeff Baena

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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

Sophocles

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If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

Louis Farrakhan

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I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

Jonathan King

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Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.

Derrick Grayson

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Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

Christina Baker Kline

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I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

Corey Reynolds

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I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

Chuck Norris

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I enjoy hard golf courses.

Brooks Koepka

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