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You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Jimmy Dean

Try, Once, Luck

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.
Jim Henson

Children, Said, Show

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.
Dolly Parton

Alive, Longer, Fans

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
Roger Ebert

Movies, Moving, Friends

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
Jake Gyllenhaal

Crazy, Sit, Wondering

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.
Kim Kardashian

Car, Nice, Parents

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
Charles de Lint

Friendship, Work, Good

I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'.
Dean Martin

Words, Kids, Goodbye

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
Joseph Henry

Great, Minds, Prepared

The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.
Rush Limbaugh

Sure, State, Realize

Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
Billy Corgan

Good, Sometimes

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.
Christina Ricci

Yourself, Living, Makes

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
Marlon Brando

Women, End, Long

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
Loretta Lynn

Life, Time, Long

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Life, Good, History

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty

Money, Smells, Manure

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
Andrew Cohen

Women, Men, Experience

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.
Michael J. Fox

Work, Guys, Took

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
Tony Blair

Hate, Humanity, Liberty

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
Arthur Ashe

Love, Others, Face

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
Desmond Tutu

Peace, Freedom, Help

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
Ritchie Blackmore

Good, Someone, Standards

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.
Patti Smith

Time, Long, Possible

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
Steve Martin

Music, Art, Exist

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
Alan Kay

Technology, Born

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
Scott Adams

Power, Future, Stupidity

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
Adele

Silence, Before, Off

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
Ice Cube

Love, Great, Smart

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel

Life, Artist, Musicians

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
Temple Grandin

Autism, Genetics, Tech

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