Famous Quotes

Quotes by Beck

• One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
• Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
• People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
• People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
• Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
• Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
• Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.
• Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
• Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
• Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
• Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
• Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
• Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
• Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.
• Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
• Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
• Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
• Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
• That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.
• That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.
• The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
• The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.
• The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
• The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
• The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
• The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
• The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.
• There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
• There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
• These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.
• Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.
• Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
• We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
• We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.
• We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
• We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
• What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.
• What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
• When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
• When humor goes, there goes civilization.
• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.