Fodder Quotes:

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

- Bob Newhart

source: "Bob Newhart Set For Las Vegas Show". Interview with Scott Gulbransen, states.aarp.org. November 3, 2016.

topic: Materials, Fodder, Knows

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

- Mo Rocca

topic: Hypocrisy, Comedy, Fodder

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

- Edie Falco

topic: Character, Thinking, People, Fodder

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

- Helen Thomas

topic: Children, Care, Needs, Cannons, Fodder

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.

- Jo Brand

topic: Christian, Personality, Comedian, Fodder

Because I've never made this kind of movie before, so I've never even been to Comic-Con. And Hugh and Evangeline keep telling me, 'Oh, my god... This is such Comic-Con fodder. We're going to have such a fun summer!' Is this the kind of thing they show? That length?

- Shawn Anthony Levy

topic: Summer, Fun, Kind, Comic Con, Fodder

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

- Raquel Cepeda

topic: Spiritual, Soul, Needs, Zeitgeist, Fodder

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Education, Clever, Ideas, Commencement Speech, Fodder

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged “good” can justify it-there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations.

- Ayn Rand

topic: War, Men, Long, Individuation, Collectivism

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.

- L. Ron Hubbard

topic: Art, People, Soul, Fodder, Food For The Soul

We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

- Jane Fonda

topic: War, Men, White Man, Fodder, American War

I like the idea of dating, but I'm not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.

- Cory Monteith

topic: Ideas, Dating, Tabloids, Fodder

A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.

- John Galt

topic: Soul, Doe, Body, Fodder

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

- Kamasi Washington

source: "A New Standard: Kamasi Washington's Modern Jazz Revolution". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2015.

topic: Smart, Eye, People, Fodder

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

- James Whitcomb Riley

source: James Whitcomb Riley (1895). “The Days Gone by and Other Poems”

topic: Fall, Heart, Autumn, Fodder

Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? ... Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.

- Ward Churchill

source: "CU Prof Defends Military Remarks" by Jim Kirksey and Amy Herdy, www.denverpost.com. June 29, 2005.

topic: Order, Support, Pieces, Grenade, Fodder

Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.129

topic: Animal, Men, Squirrels, Wild Creatures, Withered

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

- Al Pacino

source: Source: www.joe.ie

topic: Opportunity, Actors, Stuff, Fodder

Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down.

- George Carlin

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Play, Mind, Television, Fodder, Note Taking

For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

- Barack Obama

source: A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

topic: Inspiring, Country, Believe, Fodder, Reverends

The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Baby, Sweet, Stars, Bethlehem, Sandals

Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary: For the first time in a decade, it is the Democratic candidates, not the Republican ones, who are fodder for late-night comics. That the Democrats are committing gaffes and causing scandals at a higher rate than Republicans not only may be decisive in the battle for the Senate. It could signal a change in our politics at large.

- Matthew Continetti

source: "The Macaca Democrats" by Matthew Continetti, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 17, 2014.

topic: Writing, Night, Battle, Fodder, Candidates

And this Atlantean Destroyer is now leading the Daimons and sending them out to battle against Acheron, who is just using us and the humans as cannon fodder to protect himself? Really, Kyros, put down the crack pipe...or go write children’s fantasy novels. I’ll bet you even know exactly who conspired to kill Kennedy, huh? I’m sure the money from D.B. Cooper is what financed your stunning collection of furniture. (Danger)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Children, Writing, Fantasy Novels, Fodder

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

- Ashton Kutcher

topic: Writing, People, Magazines, Fodder

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

- Conrad Black

topic: Country, Israel, Numbers, Fodder, Red Herrings

Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.

- Gayle Forman

source: Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.16, Penguin

topic: School, Yearbook, Ideas, Fodder, High School Yearbook

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Mean, Men, Evil, Looting, Fodder

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

- Eugene V. Debs

topic: Slavery, Needs, Fit, Fodder

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

topic: Evil, Goal, Rewards, Fodder, Virtue And Happiness

There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there was a market for it - just as there is today. And there were more bad bands than there were good bands - I think that should always be remembered.

- Woody Herman

topic: Thinking, Today, Band, Fodder, Good Bands

The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do. Gravity is no one's friend. Yet the perspective I've gained is so worth the wear and tear. What would have mortified me at 25 is now simply fodder for a funny, relatable story. Also? I was a waitress at 25, and now I'm an author. Forty-five is definitely better.

- Jen Lancaster

topic: Perspective, Missing, Tears, Fodder

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.

- Charles Fourier

topic: Children, Selfishness, Able, Fodder

Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations.

- Judith Jones

topic: Color, Smell, Raw Materials, Fodder

The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for a storyline on the show!

- Alfre Woodard

topic: Real, Thought Provoking, Secret, Fodder

Everything is an idea for something, something that touches the imagination, a fact that seems relevant or maybe just a statement I find interesting — either because it resonates or because I disagree. All of it is fodder for continued work or thinking on the topics. It’s also important to me to record the ideas that my instincts tell me are bad.

- Elizabeth Spiers

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Imagination, Fodder

Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion - contempt for women - has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.

- Andrea Dworkin

topic: Children, Integrity, Women, Fodder

I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been on my way out since I started, but I'm strong-willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother.

- Cher

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Strong, Jobs, Infomercials, Comedy Shows

I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

- Q-Tip

source: "The tipping point" by Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.

topic: Thug, Track, Special, Fodder, Neighbourhoods

But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock-When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

- James Whitcomb Riley

source: James Whitcomb Riley (1994). “Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

topic: Morning, Autumn, Air, Fodder, Autumn Days

You can see with the proliferation of magazines, you know, that just focus entirely on that. So it just - it seems like there (was) a lot of fodder and a lot of stories and fun things to poke fun at and highlight.

- Debra Messing

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Fun, Focus, Stories, Fun Things, Fodder

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

- Justus von Liebig

source: Justus von Liebig (1863). “The natural laws of husbandry: Edited by John Blyth”, p.389

topic: Grain, Fodder

I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me-- I'd want to 'ccommodate 'em--all the whole-in-durin' flock-- When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

- James Whitcomb Riley

source: James Whitcomb Riley, “When The Frost Is On The Punkin”

topic: Angel, Frost, Ems, Fodder

It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.

- Fredrika Bremer

source: Fredrika Bremer (1863). “Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands”, p.213

topic: Country, Winter, Sheep, Olive Trees, Firewood

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And theres a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you dont need to do so.

- Damian Lewis

topic: People, Giving, Acting, Fodder

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

- George Eliot

topic: Animal, Thinking, Ark, Rations, Fodder

Im not the voice of reason; Im more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

- Anthony Jeselnik

topic: Voice, Guy, Topics, Fodder, Voice Of Reason

Things seem to be at a boiling point all the time. In fact, it has been that way my whole life. I find it interesting, and I like the fact that the emotions are in your face all the time. You always know where you stand. None of that "we don't have any racial problems here" attitude that you get, say, up north. All of this is rich fodder for a crime novelist.

- George Pelecanos

source: Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

topic: Attitude, Interesting, Novelists, Where You Stand, Fodder

What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.

- Nell Zink

source: "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.

topic: Ideas, People, Tolerance, Fodder, What's Important

The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought to the realm of computer-fodder. It is quite exciting to think about what other fields of pure mathematics, hitherto thought to be reserved to human intelligence, might be moved to that realm next. The goal is to put ourselves out of business completely, and the work is well underway.

- Herbert Wilf

topic: Book, Science, Thinking, Fodder, Reserved