Lame Quotes - Page 9

• The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Sick, Firsts

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.

  Steven Johnson

  Bottom Of The Barrel, Television, Problem

  "'Everything Bad Is Good for You'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 24, 2005.

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• Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

  Neil Diamond

  Philosophy, Men, Walks

  Song: Holly, Holy, Album: Touching You, Touching Me, 1969

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• Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

  Jimmy Reid

  Vocabulary, Race, Ducks

  "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.

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• I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Song, Cds, Missing

  "'The Future of Us': Authors Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler talk time travel, 90's pop culture". Interview with Stephan Lee, ew.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Skills, Church

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.210

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• Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

  Chinua Achebe

  World, Pleasure, Antelopes

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.16, Anchor

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• As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it never turned away. Side by side through all His manifestations of Himself, there were the two aspects: "He showed Himself froward " (if I may quote the word) to the self-righteous and the Pharisee; and He bent with more than a woman's tenderness of 'yearning love over the darkness and sinfulness, which in its great darkness dimly knew itself blind, and in its sinfulness stretched out a lame hand of faith, and groped after a Divine deliverer.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Self, Hands, Class

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 68), 1895.

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• I have a lot more real friends, than friends that I'm talking to on the Internet. That's not cool, not safe, not fun and most likely not real. Everything is just better when you're not so wrapped up in that. I just think it's lame.

  Miley Cyrus

  Fun, Real, Thinking

  "Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Interview THE LAST SONG". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. March 16, 2010.

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• Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

  Walter Wykes

  Vegas, Oddities, Cities

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• The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers.

  Christian Smith

  Opposites, Purpose, Body

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• Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Arms, Losing

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

  Horace

  Track, Legs, May

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• A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.

  Tim Heidecker

  Rocks, Guitar, Play

  "Tim Heidecker Talks Album, Tim & Eric Movie". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 21, 2011.

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• I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits."

  Sarah Silverman

  Song, New York, Guy

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Valentine's Day gifts like teddy bears, chocolate and perfume are SO lame. How about be thoughtful and original?

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Valentine, Thoughtful, Chocolate

  "The Fix Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2016.

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• In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.

  Justin Martyr

  Atheism, Done, Deeds

  Justin Martyr (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Justin Martyr (Annotated Edition)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side.

  Ernest Newman

  Dog, May, Sides

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• Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

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• I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio.

  Neko Case

  Country, Song, Writing

  "MusicfestNW 2013: When Neko Met K.D". Interview with Robert Ham, www.wweek.com. August 27, 2013.

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• It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.

  Oswald Chambers

  Eye, Men, Sight

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.65, Discovery House

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• It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Running, Hurt, Children

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

  Rumi

  Mean, Reality, Wings

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.171, Shambhala Publications

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• The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Long, Leaving

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.213

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• The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

  Gary Larson

  Ideas, Cartoon, Vices

  Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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