Putting Quotes

Theology --An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing. (H. L. Mencken)
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort. View quote
Colin Powell
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. View quote
Charles Dickens
I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him. View quote
Vincent Gallo
Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. View quote
William Faulkner
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. View quote
Norman Mailer
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. View quote
Steve Jobs
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. (Ray Bradbury)
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. View quote
Denis Diderot
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!' View quote
Conan O'Brien
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. View quote
Horace Mann
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful. View quote
Kenny Dalglish
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. View quote
Alan Moore
I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. That does not equal ease. At ease was not being in the military. I am at ease, bro, because I am not in the military. (Mitch Hedberg)
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. View quote
Robert Browning
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. View quote
Fawn M. Brodie