T Cooper Quotes

I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!

'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'

Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.

Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.

All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God...for His glory and for His pleasure. Don't waste them, make great use of them and make Him proud.

With charm you’ve got to get up close to see it; style slaps you in the face.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.

One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

A dyslexic man walks into a bra.

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

Satan sent her from the bowels of hell, I should have recognized old Jezebel.

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.

Sometimes making people laugh or even making them scared can be accomplished by a good opening sequence.

As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.

I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.

I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.

Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this.

If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.

I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

What happens when you broadcast the truth is you piss everyone off!

Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.