W C Fields Quotes

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

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.

For me their biggest threat is when they get into the attacking part of the field.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

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

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.

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

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

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

I might have to commute. You know, left field, DH, wherever.

Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Every Christian a missionary; every non-Christian a mission-field.

I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

We are all connected and operate within living fields of thought and perception. The world is not fixed but is in constant flux; accordingly, the future is not fixed, and so can be shaped.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

I think very highly of myself. I think I'm capable of a lot of things on the field.

You have to have patience in this field.

Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.

Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

I am someone that is very competitive. When I'm on the field, I compete. When I'm practicing, when I'm in meetings. I'm a competitor in everything.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

I grew up driving old pickup trucks on the ranch with my dad, and I still always find myself driving like I'm out in an open field, except I'm in LA on La Cienega in the middle of rush-hour traffic.

The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.