Jim Corbett quote: "Hundreds of false rumors of alleged attacks by the man-eater were brought to us, entailing endless miles of walking, but this was only to be expected, for in an area in which an established man-eater is operating everyone suspects their own shadows, and every sound heard at night is attributed to the man-eater."

Tigers, except when wounded or when man-eaters, are on the whole very good-tempered...Occassionally ...
JIM CORBETT

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice
JIM CORBETT

I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent...
JIM CORBETT

Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should n...
JIM CORBETT

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.
RONNIE CORBETT

Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.
RONNIE CORBETT

I just keep jogging along, and people seem to like me. And for that I am very grateful.
RONNIE CORBETT

By comparison, this is much like an internal affairs (IA) division within a local police department.
BRIAN CORBETT

Funding is our first hurdle.
BRIAN CORBETT

If you have three nonviolent crimes, you could still get the same sentence as someone who has commit...
BRIAN CORBETT

Certainly we hope to use this 500 to address the number of inmates in county jails over the 30-day l...
BRIAN CORBETT

We are targeting larger vehicles initially in our hybrid strategy because that's where we can get th...
BRIAN CORBETT

Just consider the image the auto industry, and particularly Detroit, has on a national basis. We can...
BRIAN CORBETT

I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my...
RONNIE CORBETT

At one point we were 6-6 and didn't look like we were going to do much this year. But the girls got ...
BRANDY CORBETT

We didn't have anyone who match up with her one-on-one. Her size got us in foul trouble and just wor...
BRANDY CORBETT

On any given night, we have a different person step up. They have all exceeded my expectations.
BRANDY CORBETT

We knew she'd be good, but we didn't know if she'd be ready to play at this level yet. She has prove...
BRANDY CORBETT

We hope our defensive pressure is as productive as it's been the last two games. We've scored a lot ...
BRANDY CORBETT

She's a good shooter from the outside. We can't focus all of our efforts on the two post players.
BRANDY CORBETT

They most certainly have a size advantage on us. Their guards are not very tall, but they are tough ...
BRANDY CORBETT

It was hands down our best performance of the year. (St. Francis) had three really good athletes wit...
BRANDY CORBETT

She's just a great player. We had three different players guard her and the girls did a great job ho...
BRANDY CORBETT

We are going to have to handle their pressure. They are very athletic. We simply can't commit any tu...
BRANDY CORBETT

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-bud...
JOHN CORBETT

Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a differen...
RONNIE CORBETT

There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat ...
JEFF CORBETT

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety a...
RONNIE CORBETT

You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people ...
RONNIE CORBETT

I have had the most spoiled golfing life.
RONNIE CORBETT

We played hard, we came to compete, and it's nice to start the season with a win.
MYRON CORBETT

I think we tried. Nothing ventured and nothing gained.
JOHN CORBETT

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful...
JOHN CORBETT

I don't expect any kind of charges,
JOHN CORBETT

The new branch office will be completed by the end of this month or early next month. This has been ...
JOHN CORBETT

We recorded over a dozen songs we had just learned the day before. I knew before I went in to record...
JOHN CORBETT

I hung out at Uncle Phil's Club Madrid nightspot where my mother was a waitress and my grandmother s...
JOHN CORBETT

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior colle...
JOHN CORBETT

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six pl...
JOHN CORBETT

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being succ...
JOHN CORBETT

Gap is a quality team. Right now, they're playing as well as anybody. We're going to need another st...
JOHN CORBETT

I'm not done with acting forever. I'm very grateful for what my acting has brought me. But you only ...
JOHN CORBETT

I know people came out to see how bad we were. Then we win them over, and they stick around.
JOHN CORBETT

I'm not sure. I like to have funny answers for that or avoid the question but I'm tired of trying to...
JOHN CORBETT

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors w...
JOHN CORBETT

That?s the kind of player that he is. He?s just a junior, and I?m glad he?s going to be back next ye...
JOHN CORBETT

(But) I think I'm a better singer and guitar player than actor.
JOHN CORBETT

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a...
JOHN CORBETT

We did Donald McGill, seaside-postcard stuff - middle of the road.
RONNIE CORBETT

Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's w...
RONNIE CORBETT

Unfortunately, everybody gets beat in the last game except the state champion. When we started out t...
DALE CORBETT

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the loo...
RONNIE CORBETT

We depended on Diana a lot in terms of settling the team down in the fourth quarter. After the first...
MYRON CORBETT

I challenged Angelina during the third quarter. She went out and put up some big numbers in the seco...
MYRON CORBETT

Part of my style was getting into a muddle. Audiences think that's part of the act. Sometimes it...
RONNIE CORBETT

No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital be...
MIKE CORBETT

Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gu...
MIKE CORBETT

There is a sort of mental treason
That smothers dreams outside of reason
MIKE CORBETT

There's high-tech home security systems where if you're away, you could watch your home from your ca...
BILL CORBETT

A lot of this stuff is not even on the market yet.
BILL CORBETT

This deceptive or perceived scare tactic method to renew a magazine is at best unfair and at worst i...
TOM CORBETT

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you i...
RONNIE CORBETT

We found a completely new audience.
RONNIE CORBETT

Ronnie was pure gold in triplicate - as a performer, a writer and a friend.
RONNIE CORBETT

It was a good year. As far as truly getting upset, we stayed away from that until (losing to Westerv...
DALE CORBETT

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.
RONNIE CORBETT

David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.
RONNIE CORBETT

This was a hard game; it was hard fought. We played through bad calls and missed shots. They played ...
MYRON CORBETT

Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
JOHN CORBETT

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing acto...
JOHN CORBETT

If you take cyclists, runners, cross-country skiers, swimmers and all kinds of endurance athletes ac...
JEFF CORBETT

If you're going to have the baby on the first or second of January - shoot, it's going to hurt you.
DON CORBETT

We've been having this annual convention on the last weekend of February since 1971. Our date has be...
DON CORBETT

Activities have all been a hit in the past. Depending on the weather, it could be a nice, enjoyable ...
CHRIS CORBETT

I think he'll be in the mix.
JEFF CORBETT

You can't pick the night you're going to play bad. I give a lot of credit to Westerville (Central), ...
DALE CORBETT

A lot of these teams I haven't seen in a while.
DALE CORBETT

We have some guards coming back. We have some decent people.
DALE CORBETT

This is a special group. Every big game we won we were so happy for them. Right now, I don't feel ba...
DALE CORBETT

Oh, (the pressure is) on us, we can't afford to lose again (in the league). (Central is) two games u...
DALE CORBETT

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any da...
RONNIE CORBETT

You become a champion by fighting one more round.
JAMES CORBETT

What may be unconscionable to one judge may not be unconscionable to another judge,
TOM CORBETT

I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 195...
RONNIE CORBETT

In the old days, if you topped the bill one evening, you'd do 22 minutes maximum, and if you ove...
RONNIE CORBETT

I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, a...
RONNIE CORBETT

Interest in the hospital has grown in the community. They are proud of the hospital and see a bright...
CLIFF CORBETT

We have spent more money in the last five years upgrading and expanding services than we have in the...
CLIFF CORBETT

He's a very experienced swimmer. He's been swimming for years, so he is really strong and was able t...
LISA CORBETT

We always put a lot of pressure on ourselves; I mean we never go into a race looking to [do] anythin...
JEFF CORBETT

Radio is changing dramatically. This feels like the loss of a friend that you knew you could always ...
JEFF CORBETT

It makes good business sense, but I don't like it. Those stations were the cornerstone of this commu...
JEFF CORBETT

Though we are more of a sprinting team, we have sprinters who can get over the hills. I figure the w...
JEFF CORBETT

There are 10-20 names that have the fitness to win the race, and Chris would have to be one of them....
JEFF CORBETT

Every one of the (16) teams is stacked with talent. The teams that take the race seriously -- those ...
JEFF CORBETT

The guys who want to be successful in the summer can't be flying in February. The riders whose minds...
JEFF CORBETT

There is no real plan. We're more concerned with winning the race. This race is too difficult to say...
JEFF CORBETT

We have to stay true to the universe of Halo and create something that will be an experience on your...
JULIAN CORBETT

Being selected as the mobile partner and entrusted with the Halo universe is a huge honor... Ultimat...
JULIAN CORBETT

This partnership is first and foremost a creative one focused on delivering mobile applications true...
JULIAN CORBETT

(Peters) is, without a doubt, a hero in the eyes of my family.
PATRICK CORBETT

You come to the point when you know it's time to consider some other things.
PATRICK CORBETT

We're all here and healthy, but we've had our lineup together only one time. That keeps us from putt...
RAY CORBETT

Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not ...
WILLIAM CORBETT

I think the best way to define the season is it's wide open for a lot of teams.
WILLY CORBETT

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
JAMES J. CORBETT

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
JAMES J. CORBETT

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult th...
JAMES J. CORBETT

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.
JAMES J. CORBETT

These accomplishments demonstrate that we are effectively executing our strategy as a pure-play expl...
LUKE R. CORBETT

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISON

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
JIM ROHN

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
JIM MORRISON

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of be...
JIM DAVIS

I stop short of being a workaholic.
JIM DAVIS

When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.
JIM DAVIS

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
JIM DAVIS

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.
JIM DAVIS

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make rea...
JIM DAVIS

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.
JIM DAVIS

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
JIM DAVIS

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
JIM DAVIS

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condi...
JIM DAVIS

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting...
JIM DAVIS

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
JIM DAVIS

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
JIM DAVIS

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
JIM DAVIS

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessari...
JIM DAVIS

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute hum...
JIM DAVIS

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veteran...
JIM DAVIS

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
JIM DAVIS

Cats rule the world.
JIM DAVIS

As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a ma...
JIM RAMSTAD

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, th...
JIM JARMUSCH

Where's your will to be weird?
JIM MORRISON

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
JIM ROHN

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
JIM MORRISON

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and op...
JIM MORRISON

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where t...
JIM CARREY

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Se...
JIM CARREY

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserv...
JIM CARREY

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like...
JIM CARREY

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
JIM CARREY

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good rel...
JIM CARREY

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
JIM CARREY

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without despera...
JIM CARREY

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain...
JIM CARREY

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingred...
JIM CARREY

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day w...
JIM CARREY

If you've got a talent, protect it.
JIM CARREY

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
JIM CARREY

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create ...
JIM CARREY

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's lef...
JIM CARREY

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articl...
JIM HENSON

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in t...
JIM HENSON

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I ...
JIM HENSON

There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most ...
JIM HENSON

I think my own strengths are in television production.
JIM HENSON

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gor...
JIM HENSON

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale o...
JIM HENSON

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working t...
JIM HENSON

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantag...
JIM HENSON

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
JIM HENSON

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several o...
JIM HENSON

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like t...
JIM HENSON

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that s...
JIM HENSON

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that peop...
JIM HENSON

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all ...
JIM HENSON

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was in...
JIM HENSON

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them...
JIM HENSON

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
JIM HENSON

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - to...
JIM HENSON

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
JIM HENSON

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...
JIM HENSON

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
JIM HENSON

Either you run the day or the day runs you.
JIM ROHN

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
JIM ROHN

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
JIM ROHN

There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a clien...
JIM GARRISON

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I coul...
JIM GARRISON

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employ...
JIM GARRISON

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute s...
JIM GARRISON

I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.
JIM GARRISON

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators tr...
JIM GARRISON

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of indivi...
JIM GARRISON

It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
JIM GARRISON

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my fait...
JIM GARRISON

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaig...
JIM GARRISON

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assass...
JIM GARRISON

I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
JIM GARRISON

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of nationa...
JIM GARRISON

I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
JIM MCGOVERN

I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration ...
JIM MCGOVERN

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr...
JIM MCGOVERN

A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives ...
JIM MCGOVERN

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch...
JIM MCGOVERN

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
JIM CARREY

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
JIM BROWN

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