W C Fields Quotes

In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.

I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Instead of being a student of a (given) field, I would like you to be the field.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.

When its raining the field gets wet, then all of a sudden everyones running slower

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.

Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which it springs.

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

When chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

Your field of focus determines what you find in life.

I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

In my heart, I know I haven't been the best person, the best quarterback for the Steelers, I'm not talking just on the field, I'm talking off the field.

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

On the field, you come into sync with your teammates and coaches and together you achieve something that you could never do on your own.

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.

And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.