Bob Thaves Quotes

When you come into the world you have nothing ... when you leave you have nothing ... and in between there's the IRS. ~ Bob Thaves

Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did, .. backwards and in high heels.
From: Frank and Ernest by Bob Thaves, art by Bob Thaves. ~ Bob Thaves

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it. ~ Bob Thaves

I like to get to work early. Before my brain knows what I'm up to. ~ Bob Thaves

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it. ~ Bob Thaves

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows! ~ Bob Thaves

The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged. ~ Bob Thaves

Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control. ~ Bob Newhart

a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants. ~ BOB

Let us leave it at this," said Atticus dryly. "You, Miss Scout Finch, are the common folk. You must obey the law." He said that the Ewells were members of an exclusive society made up of Ewells. In certain circumstances the common folk judiciously allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to some of the Ewells' activities. They didn't have to go to school, for one thing. Another thing, Mr. Bob Ewell, Burris's father, was permitted to hunt and trap out of season. "Atticus, ~ Harper Lee

Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash. ~ Bob Goff

Here's the important lesson in electronic journalism: it's not the literary value of the words - it's the tone of the sportscaster's voice ~ Bob Wolff

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming. ~ Bob Dylan

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. ~ Bob Geldof

If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth. ~ Bob Marley

Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't. ~ Bob Goff

I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.! ~ Gabrielle Aplin

The better (i.e., the more accurately) we know God through his Word, the more genuine our worship will be. In fact, the moment we veer from what is true about God, we're engaging in idolatry. Regardless of what we think or feel, there is no authentic worship of God without a right knowledge of God. ~ Bob Kauflin

Marzipan's a private matter! ~ Bob Mortimer

You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies. ~ Steve Sabol

The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you. ~ Bob Jones, Sr.

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance. ~ Bob Gibson

[S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that anyone can decide this moment that he will never feel it anymore. That is not how things happen. I mean that every time it bobs its head up, day after day, year after year, all our lives long, we must hit it on the head. It is hard work, but the attempt is not impossible. ~ C.S. Lewis

It almost felt like too much, just by the sad weight of its being so little. ~ Bob Shacochis

People like Bryant Gumbel and Bob Costas are terrific broadcasters because they get challenged every day. ~ John Tesh

Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon. ~ Bob Gaudio

Quality begins on the inside ... then works its way out. ~ Bob Moawad

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now. ~ Bob Brown

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied. ~ Bob Dylan

Everything you hate is everything that you created. ~ Bob Mould

It existed almost by oversight, "far removed from reality," as one of the "Kandy Kids" wrote, "where everyone had an academic interest in the war but found life far too pleasant to do anything too drastic about it. ~ Bob Spitz

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time. ~ Ziggy Marley

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. ~ Bob Jones, Sr.

I was in Italy in 1992 working on magazine articles when I got a call from the Italian travel commission. They asked, would I mind being an escort for an older woman? I told them I don't do that kind of work, but then they said it was Julia Child, and I said I'd be right there. ~ Bob Spitz

Choreography is writing on your feet. ~ Bob Fosse

I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum. ~ Don King

It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go. ~ Bob Proctor

I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I've got three daughters so we'll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff. ~ Bob Saget