W C Fields Quotes

Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

Working with people on a field turns me on.

Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

We can change South Africa on the rugby field

When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?

Always when I come to the field, I try to do my best for other people.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.

I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they’ve created value in the world.

In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

You do not become a real pro in your field by doing certain things - you become a pro in your field by doing things in a certain way.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.

Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps.

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.

The life of a dancer is not for everyone. You really have to have some thick skin. You really have to know what you're going into and how competitive the field is.

I remember when Samuel Okwaraji died on the field, I was mute and I didn't even know what I was doing or what I was saying.

Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more.

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.