Lame Quotes - Page 5

• Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

  Félix J. Palma

  Mother, Bored, World

  Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of Time: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Father, Comfort

  Sonnet 37

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• You a lame so yo dame playin mind games;
  I'm a pimp so I stay in that mind frame.

  Lil' Flip

  Games, Hip Hop, Pimp

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• Reducing your life down to three pairs of jeans, two skirts, a couple of shirts, and a few pairs of shoes was so nice for me. I really loved living in this tiny room where I didnt have space for anything. It sounds really lame, but it made me feel a lot more free, because I just didnt have as many choices.

  Emma Watson

  Couple, Nice, Jeans

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• It's lame when I'm hanging out with my friends and they're so busy taking pictures to put on Facebook, instead of enjoying what they're doing. You're gonna look back and have 10 million pictures, but you're not in one of them because you were too busy clicking away. I think it's best to stop telling people about it and enjoy the moment you're in yourself.

  Miley Cyrus

  Thinking, People, Doing You

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• One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.

  Edward Dorn

  Sleep, Writing, Sick

  Edward Dorn, Joseph Richey (2007). “Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes”, p.41, University of Michigan Press

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• At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

  Richard Adams

  Sunset, Opportunity, Tyrants

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• The last girl I went out with blew me off. Now I call her with lame excuses to see her, "Hey, did I leave a penny over there?"

  David Spade

  Girl, Heartache, Hey

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• It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

  Brittany Snow

  Sound, May, Calm

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• Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Individuality, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

  Bill Gates

  Information, Matter, Execution

  "Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System". Book by Bill Gates, www.entrepreneur.com. 1999.

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• All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Creativity, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.111, Penguin

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• This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet. I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet. If someone has a foot fetish, I'd have an in. I love foot rubs, too. I'll take one whenever I can.

  Torrie Wilson

  Nice, Feet, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet.

  Torrie Wilson

  Feet, Sound, Proud

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.

  Eva Le Gallienne

  Struggle, Angel, Passion

  Eva Le Gallienne (1966). “The Mystic in the Theatre: Eleonora Duse”

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• Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

  Charles Studd

  Lying, Blood, Denial

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• A non-frightening zombie is a lame zombie.

  Scott M. Gimple

  Zombie, Frightening

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• I know this sounds incredibly lame,
  but I don't want losing my virginity
  to feel like I'm losing something.
  I want it to feel like I'm finding something.
  I want sex to be amazing.
  I want it to be life-alteringly wonderful.
  And I want it to happen with someone I love.

  Sonya Sones

  Sex, Sound, Want

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• TMI? Too Much Information. It”s just easier to say 'TMI'. I used to say 'don't go there', but that's lame.

  Michael Scott

  Too Much Information, Easier, Used

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• Personalizatio n wasn't supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same lame stuff as everyone else sees. No, it is a chance to differentiate at a human scale, to use behavior as the most important clue about what people want and more important, what they need.

  Seth Godin

  People, Important, Use

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• In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Strong, Men, Two

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

  Sam Kinison

  Moving, Careers, Numbers

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• You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.

  Ally Walker

  Kids, Men, Years

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. August 22, 2003.

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• You sit around watching all this stuff happen on TV. . . and the TV sits and watches us do nothing! The TV must think we're all pretty lame.

  Shannon Wheeler

  Thinking, Watches, Stuff Happens

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