Unbelievable Quotes - Page 14

• As I go on in standup, I keep being described as cleaner and cleaner as I do each hour, they're like, 'It's unbelievable how clean,' 'He's the cleanest person in the world.' And then I'll do shows and people will be like, 'You're supposed to be so clean, but you're talking about cancer.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Cancer, Talking, People

  "Interview: Jim Gaffigan Talks Family, Food And Dad Is Fat". Interview with Samantha Abernethy, chicagoist.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Spectators around the world enjoyed watching Seve, but talking to a lot of the players, he made such an impression on them the way he played, and the way he was such a beautiful, natural talent. His hands on the club. His address position. He had an unbelievable way of telegraphing through his countenance what he was going to do with the ball. It was just like an artist.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Beautiful, Artist, Player

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• The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.

  Don Rickles

  Sky, Rooms, Transformation

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• It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.

  Karen Russell

  Crazy, Blood, Relation

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• With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  School, Thinking, Touching

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• People talk about things happening and it being "unbelievable," and it's exactly the reverse. It's really believable, but we are so conditioned to believe that these kinds of things are just coincidences, that they're just things that show up arbitrarily in our lives, when the fact is that all of us have this kind of guidance available to us.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, People, Facts

  "I Can See Clearly Now". Interview with Reid Tracy, www.aquarianonline.com. March 28, 2014.

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• I don't have any secret sauce and I'm no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, Secret, Sauce

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Performers love to perform - that's the thing that we do. I think one of the best things was being able to imagine anything that I wanted, anything that I came up with we could do, because this theater is unbelievable.

  Cher

  Thinking, Able, Imagine

  "Cher Says She's Living Like 'A Nun' in Las Vegas". Interview with Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 18, 2009.

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• At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mean, Race, Taste

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• Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering.

  David Letterman

  Leadership, Fashion, Real

  "Joan Rivers Dead: Hollywood Mourns Comedian" by Hilary Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2014.

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• Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It's the music a man's spirit sings to his heart, when the earth's far away and there isn't any more fear. It's the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Beautiful, Freedom, Ocean

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• I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics .

  Michael Stipe

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Simply Happy, Tree

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• Tenacious D loves Auntie Em's. Her delicious nutrients are always energizing and indie-fresh. Where does she find those unbelievable recipes? Somewhere over the rainbow?

  Jack Black

  Rainbow, Doe, Ems

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• Working with passion is an engine that is unbelievable. A person with drive and passion does three times the job of another person. But it is not so much the quantity of the job; that is not the point. The point is that they draw crowds; they have followers; they push, and lead, and so achieve much more.

  Dov Seidman

  Jobs, Passion, Crowds

  Dov Seidman (2011). “How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything”, p.295, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

  Alan Watts

  Pain, Ghost, Forgotten

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.29, Souvenir Press

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• Marriage is unbelievable, i couldn't be more in love.

  Jessica Simpson

  Love

  "Jessica Simpson on being relatable: 'I've been all kinds of sizes'" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. March 16, 2015.

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• There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Kings, Crazy, Fans

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• The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Baseball, Yankees, Boston

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

  Steven Knight

  War, Years, America

  Source: deadline.com

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• It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Moral, Fortitude

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I think my home country, Canada, has the most vocal fans. It feels unbelievable when I go home to feel such love. It's amazing whenever I get that kind of support, but to be able to connect with my fellow Canadians is awesome!

  Justin Bieber

  Country, Home, Thinking

  "Justin Bieber's favorite destination". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 3, 2010.

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• It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, People, Needs

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

  Bill Frisell

  Hurt, Emotion, Kind

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• One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, People, Diversity

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