It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up

The first rule for getting out of holes is to stop.

You can’t be afraid of getting older. You can’t be afraid of moving forward.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

We’re getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we’re releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

If you want to know what the Georgians were really like, just watch the furniture experts on the Roadshow, those spraunced and pinched plonkers with marbled hair and patinated jowls pulling ancient drawers off old widows’ ball-and-claw feet and getting all arch about their lovely dovetails. That’s the true voice of Georgiana.

My foray into comedy was to avoid getting a job.

I need to lose some weight. I’m getting really fat. But I’m getting older, and I just can’t stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.

I am 5’6′ and desperately wish I was taller.

Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band, they deserve the kind of success they’re getting

Yours (now I’m even losing my name – it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it’s just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight – audience, performance, and palace guard.

I used to be on a live show with Caroline Flack, and I think I only got on that because I was a comic in Spain and ended up getting on well with her.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The nation that prepares for war will sooner or later have war. We get just anything we prepare for, and we get nothing else. Everything that happens is a sequence: this happened today because you did that yesterday.

It’s all generated, maybe, by the fact that the attitude of the populace is to try to find the answer instead of trying to find a man who has a way of getting at the answer.

I’ve made mistakes I could have treated you better I let you get away There goes my happily ever after

Beat me ’til I’m numb Tell the devil I said “hey” when you get back to where you’re from

When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.

I daydream too. I visualise. I think ahead, I can do it now, sitting here. I think ahead to the walk-in, I can hear the crowd, the music, I can feel the cameras all around me, I can feel movements in my body as I am heading there, I can bring up that incredible feeling you get when you step into the cage.

I studied every move, I became fascinated by thinking what I could have done differently. And I take that approach now as a professional. I am on it, all the time, never stop thinking, learning. You don’t get to be world champion unless you do that.

You don’t get to be world champion unless you do that.

The support gets me to the gym but the doubt keeps me there.

Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They’re getting left behind.

I mean I love movement. I mean the energy that comes from the way I move. We get energy from how we move. I mean the control I get from knowing everything about how my body feels and how it is working.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I’m from Miami, which wasn’t getting looked at at the time. Three, I’m Cuban.

It’s quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it – the Holy Ghost changing the will of man.

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.

There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I am a child who is getting on.

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

Getting old is not for sissies