Garfield Quotes

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me. ~ Andrew Garfield

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men. ~ James A. Garfield

To quote Albert Einstein,' said Sherman, "You stink and so do your relatives."
"Einstein never said that," argued Garfield.
"Did too," Insisted Sherman. "It's in his theory of relativity. ~ Jim Kraft

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield. ~ Jim Davis

Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions. ~ Patricia Garfield

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ~ James A. Garfield

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. ~ James A. Garfield

You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you? ~ Steve Garfield

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen. ~ James A. Garfield

That's all I want, to keep losing myself. ~ Andrew Garfield

Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. ~ James Garfield

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible. ~ Jay L. Garfield

Ecofont is designed to save ink, money and eventually the planet, but heaven save us from worthy fonts. Ecofont is a program that adds holes to a font. The software takes Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman and prints them is if they had been attacked by moths. They retain their original shape but not their original form, and so lose their true weight and beauty... a study at the University of Wisconsin claimed that Ecofonts, such as Ecofont Vera Sans, actually uses more ink and toner than lighter fonts such as Century Gothic... ~ Simon Garfield

I so despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme. ~ James A. Garfield

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. ~ James A. Garfield

With my brains and your looks, we could go places. ~ John Garfield

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate. ~ Andrew Garfield

But now with young kids – there are so many more nerds. ~ Simon Garfield

We spend about 20 percent of our total sleep time in a dream state. For most of us, this means we dream one and a half hours each night or, on the average, spend four years of our lifetime in a dream state. ~ Patricia Garfield

What has survived of Garfield, however, is far more powerful than a portrait, a statue, or even the fragment of his spine that tells the tragic story of his assassination. The horror and senselessness of his death, and the wasted promise of his life, brought tremendous change to the country he loved - change that, had it come earlier, almost certainly would have spared his life. ~ Candice Millard

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan. ~ James A. Garfield

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something. ~ Matt Groening

Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens ... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity. ~ James A. Garfield

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. ~ James A. Garfield

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. ~ James A. Garfield

With a century and change between the 1880 convention and now, I'll admit I rolled my eyes at the ideological hairsplitting, wondering how a group of people who more or less agreed with one another about most issues could summon forth such stark animosity. Thankfully, we Americans have evolved, our hearts made larger, our minds more open, welcoming the negligible differences among our fellows with compassion and respect. As a Democrat who voted for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election, an election suspiciously tipped to tragic Republican victory because of a handful of contested ballots in the state of Florida, I, for one, would never dream of complaining about the votes siphoned in that state by my fellow liberal Ralph Nader, who convinced citizens whose hopes for the country differ little from my own to vote for him, even though had those votes gone to Gore, perhaps those citizens might have spent their free time in the years to come more pleasurably pursuing leisure activities, such as researching the sacrifice of Family Garfield, instead of attending rallies and protests against wars they find objectionable, not to mention the money saved on aspirin alone considering they'll have to pop a couple every time they read the newspaper, wondering if the tap water with which they wash down the pills is safe enough to drink considering the corporate polluter lobbyists now employed at the EPA. ~ Sarah Vowell

Type has rhythm, just like music. ~ Simon Garfield

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid. ~ Andrew Garfield

My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted. ~ Herbert Hoover

Ironically, the first full Baskerville biography published by CUP in 1907 was printed in Caslon ~ Simon Garfield

I told her that my happy yellow teapot has a kinky backstory involving a nineteenth-century vegetarian sex cult in upstate New York whose members lived for three decades as self-proclaimed "Bible communists" before incorporating into the biggest supplier of dinnerware to the American food-service industry, not to mention harboring their most infamous resident, an irritating young maniac who, years after he moved away, was hanged for assassinating President Garfield. ~ Sarah Vowell

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still. ~ Andrew Garfield

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain. ~ Andrew Garfield

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger. ~ Andrew Garfield

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. ~ James A. Garfield

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big ~ Charles Garfield

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either. ~ James A. Garfield

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. ~ James A. Garfield

If you are patient ... and wait long enough ... Nothing will happen ~ Jim Davis

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. ~ James A. Garfield

Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray. ~ Bob Garfield

Garfield were tasked with disentangling and arranging the fairy lights on the tree and, as she had requested, Rosamunde was granted the honour of placing the charmingly ~ Rebecca Boxall

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death. ~ James A. Garfield

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose. ~ Andrew Garfield

The ground before the castle has grown a crop of armed men. ~ Leon Garfield

I like to do 'Garfield Mondays': lasagna and napping in a box. ~ Chris Pratt

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools. ~ James A. Garfield

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day. ~ James A. Garfield

Tortured for the Republic. ~ James A. Garfield

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us. ~ James A. Garfield

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him. ~ Jack Klugman

And yet he wondered, was it enough? It must be... there was nothing else. ~ Leon Garfield

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. ~ James A. Garfield

Adventure responds to your call. ~ Garfield Whyte

I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare. ~ Sunil Gavaskar

Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen. ~ James A. Garfield

Reading is important. ~ John Garfield

Innocence is no excuse in the eyes of the Law. ~ Leon Garfield

The busy 20th and 21st centuries have made Garfield's era seem remote and irrelevant, its leaders ridiculed for their very obscurity... to the generation of Americans then alive, though, their dramas, humanities, and dignity were a compelling part of daily life. For twenty years after the Civil War, America was led by a group of larger-than-life figures with clay feet who fought and raged and plied their craft with nerve and ambition while following a code of honor riddled with blind spots and inconsistencies; during that time, public involvement in politics reached levels far higher than today. Garfield held a special place: one of the most promising of his generation, shot down in his prime, martyred for taking a principled stand. ~ Kenneth D. Ackerman

In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange. ~ Jim Davis

I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession. ~ Andrew Garfield

The return to solid values is always hard ... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values. ~ James A. Garfield

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves. ~ James A. Garfield President Of The United States

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. ~ James A. Garfield

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks. ~ Charles Garfield

If you will only consider, you will remember many a person of whom the world never heard and will never hear, whose years have been as full of generosity, loyalty to duty, faith in God, fidelity to every day's work, as those of Franklin or Garfield, Lincoln or Emerson. They, also, have put their hands to the plough and have not looked back. Having made up their minds to what ought to be done, they did not hesitate, did not procrastinate, did not worry or grow anxious, but faithfully performed the duty of the hour. They had faith in Providence, and so did with their might what their hands found to do. They gave, and it was given to them again, "full measure, pressed down and running over." They did good, hoping for nothing again, and the reward came in lives full of content; in cheerfulness, peace, and satisfaction. ~ James Clarke

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community. ~ James A. Garfield

Tears, like bitter rivers, streamed down his dried-up cheeks, as he stood swaying in his brother's arms. ~ Leon Garfield

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions. ~ Jay L. Garfield

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives! ~ James A. Garfield

I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield. ~ Marie Windsor

I'm right next to two beautiful women right now, so I'm going to sit right back down. ~ Andrew Garfield

Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called "The Social Network"] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us - getting Peter Parker's outsider status to be current. ~ Marc Webb

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. ~ James A. Garfield

I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me ... ~ Whoopi Goldberg

Records must not be the focus and that's the most important thing. It mustn't come at the cost of the team. ~ Garfield Sobers

Obviously making Peter Parker suddenly bisexual or gay wouldn't really make logical or dramatic sense. It was a hypothetical kind of question about the nature of these comic book characters and the nature of this particular character, and whether sexuality, race, any of those things makes any difference to the character of Peter Parker. ~ Andrew Garfield

I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head. ~ Andrew Garfield

Garfield took Odie's paw. "Old pal, if anything happens to us, there's one thing you should know."

"It's going to happen to you first. ~ Jim Kraft

What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob. ~ Bob Garfield

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films. ~ Andrew Garfield

Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game. ~ Garfield Sobers

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. ~ James A. Garfield

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy. ~ James A. Garfield

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. ~ James A. Garfield

These days, digitization enables us to view the copies [of the Gutenberg Bible] online without the need for a trip to the Euston Road, although to do so would be to deny oneself one of the great pleasures in life. The first book ever printed in Europe - heavy, luxurious, pungent and creaky - does not read particularly well on an iPhone. ~ Simon Garfield

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate. ~ James A. Garfield

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions. ~ James A. Garfield

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. ~ James A. Garfield

I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine. ~ Andrew Garfield

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves. ~ James A. Garfield

There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming? ~ John Garfield

Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that he, in response, refused to do part from the status quo enough to considering using antiseptic techniques. ~ Candice Millard

The game is always going to be bigger than the man and it doesn't matter what you are doing; records or whatever, somebody is just going to come along and break your records. But to achieve something that people would always look up to is something you will always appreciate. ~ Garfield Sobers

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite. ~ James A. Garfield

In 1979 the New York Times reported that in many {New York Subway} stations, the signs are so confusing that one is tempted to wish they were not there at all - a wish that is, in fact, granted in numerous stations and on all too many of the subway cars themselves. ~ Simon Garfield

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants. ~ Candice Millard

Even the ancient mariner, with his wonderful tale, succeeded in stopping only one of three! No book is for everybody. ~ Leon Garfield

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it. ~ James A. Garfield

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing. ~ James A. Garfield