Quotes on Right

I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

Author: F. Abraham

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Author: Kathy Acker

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

Author: Kathy Acker

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Author: Tori Amos

If we get it right, there need not be losers.

Author: John Anderson

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

Author: Loni Anderson

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.

Author: Poul Anderson

I've got a good right hook.

Author: Julie Andrews

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Author: Walter Annenberg

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Author: Susan Anthony

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

Author: Fiona Apple

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

Author: Anne Archer

Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

Author: Elizabeth Arden

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Author: Mary Ash

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

Author: Mary Ash

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

Author: Maurice Ashley

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Author: Jane Austen

If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.

Author: Emanuel Ax

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

Author: Charles Babbage

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

Author: Anne Bancroft

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

Author: Max Beckmann

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

Author: Harry Belafonte

If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.

Author: Bo Bennett

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Author: Ezra Benson

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Author: Jeremy Bentham

You just have to do what you know is right.

Author: Daniel Berrigan

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

Author: Halle Berry

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

Author: Alvah Bessie

Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.

Author: Michael Biehn

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.

Author: Juliette Binoche

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

Author: Antoinette Blackwell

We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies.

Author: Hassanal Bolkiah

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.

Author: Ben Bradlee

The words walked right out of my mouth.

Author: James Brady

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

Author: Bertolt Brecht

Who has words at the right moment?

Author: Charlotte Bronte

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

Author: Chester Brown

If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.

Author: Melanie Brown

I ain't got no right to judge someone.

Author: Frank Bruno

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

Author: James Buchanan

Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks.

Author: Gerard Butler

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Author: Samuel Butler

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

Author: Rocco Buttiglione

I was raised right. I dig who I am.

Author: Scott Caan

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Author: Mark Caine

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

Author: Michael Caine

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.

Author: Kirk Cameron

Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.

Author: Eddie Campbell

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Author: Elias Canetti

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

Author: Robert Capon

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

Author: Mariah Carey

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

Author: Kitty Carlisle

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

Author: Rodney Carrington

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.

Author: George Carver

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!

Author: Johnny Cash

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

Author: Wilt Chamberlain

If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.

Author: Jimmy Chamberlin

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Author: Chevy Chase

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

Author: Boozoo Chavis

Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional.

Author: Erika Christensen

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Author: Winston Churchill

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Author: Winston Churchill

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

Author: Ramsey Clark

I have tried so hard to do right.

Author: Grover Cleveland

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

Author: Patsy Cline

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Author: Adam Clymer

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

Author: Jean Cocteau

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Author: Harold Coffin

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

Author: Jim Coleman

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

Author: Arthur Collins

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Author: John Collins

I'd be happy to do Star Trek again, if the writing was right.

Author: Stephen Collins

Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.

Author: David Cone

The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls.

Author: Tre Cool

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

Author: Gerry Cooney

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

Author: Jilly Cooper

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

Author: Robert Cormier

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

Author: Jim Cramer

That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did.

Author: David Crane

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.

Author: Peter Criss

Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.

Author: Davy Crockett

I let things roll right off me. I don't stay mad long.

Author: Dennis Crosby

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

Author: Caleb Cushing

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in.

Author: Rick Dees

Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.

Author: Judi Dench

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Author: Ani DiFranco

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

Author: John Doerr

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

Author: John Doolittle

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Author: Rita Dove

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.

Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

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

Author: Marie Dressler

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

Author: Griffin Dunne

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.

Author: Edward Dyer

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

Author: Dick Dyke

With 20 top-10 finishes, I feel we're on the right path.

Author: Dale Earnhardt

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

Author: Billy Eckstine

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Author: Marian Edelman

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Author: Albert Einstein

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.

Author: Danny Elfman

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.

Author: Cass Elliot

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Author: Albert Ellis

Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!

Author: Don Ellis

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

Author: Daniel Ellsberg

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Author: Ralph Emerson

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

Author: R. Ermey

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Author: Jerry Falwell

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

Author: Dennis Farina

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.

Author: Russ Feingold

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.

Author: Morton Feldman

Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse.

Author: Tom Felton

The client is not always right.

Author: Enzo Ferrari

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

Author: Ralph Fiennes

No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was.

Author: Albert Finney

I know if someone is coming from my right side. I could feel it.

Author: Emerson Fittipaldi

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Author: Henry Ford

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Author: Henry Ford

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Author: Henry Ford

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Author: Gene Fowler

The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.

Author: Al Franken

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

Author: Frederick Frederick II

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

Author: Anna Freud

I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

Author: Peter Gabriel

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Author: Charlotte Gainsbourg

Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.

Author: Liam Gallagher

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

Author: Greta Garbo

I'm going to do things when they are right for me.

Author: Paul Gascoigne

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

Author: Peter Gay

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

Author: Ira Glasser

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

Author: William Glasser

Live dangerously and you live right.

Author: Johann Goethe

I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there.

Author: Selena Gomez

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.

Author: Amy Goodman

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

Author: Brian Greene

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Author: Germaine Greer

I was right for the role. It's as simple as that.

Author: Joel Gretsch

There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.

Author: Keith Haring

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

Author: Jerry Harrison

Just do what feels right.

Author: Juliana Hatfield

If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?

Author: Trip Hawkins

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

Author: Teresa Hayden

Rise above principle and do what's right.

Author: Joseph Heller