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Right Quotes


"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."


"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"


"I want you to do it right as fast as you can, not fast as right as you can."


"You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba."


"I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right."


"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."


"As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl."


"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."


"I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities."


"The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend."


"You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately."


"What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me."


"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."


"Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left."


"The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong."


"I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features."


"I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it."


"For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right."


"Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?"


"Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it."


"You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group."


"Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem."


"So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person."


"The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80."


"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect."


"No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right."


"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."


"That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'"


"I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's."


"You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff."


"I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky."


"When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"


"I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me."


"You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this."


"You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious."


"We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters."


"You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds.""
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