Fonz Quotes

I ask for a picture, and I get the Fonz

It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever.

It has always struck me that our emphasis on the top 10 percent of a class says they are more valuable than the bottom 3 percent. If this country is going to remain strong, we need every child to be great at what it is they can do.

If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade and float over everybody.

....because you really don't know what you can accomplish until you try. All you have to do is try, and you will amaze yourself.

My friend will always ask nicely what's for desert. My best friend is already in the fridge eating my mum's hidden chocolate stash

When you finish a negative sentence, it grows immediately into a paragraph, and then into a thesis, into so many words that grab your ankles and hold you in place. When a negative thought comes into your mind, you have to literally say out loud, “I have no time now.” People will look at you strangely, but you have to just keep saying it until it lodges in your mind. Release the negative thought before you put a period on the end of it. If you put a period on the end of it, you’re in the morass. On the other hand, if you don’t finish the negative thought, you can get it out of your brain by replacing it with a positive. What kind of positive? What I always say in my talks is that it is a moist chocolate Bundt cake with soft chocolate chips. No frosting.

Even in the ’70s and ’80s, the television show Happy Days was aware of the irony of “cool.” The cool character on Happy Days was “the Fonz,” and he was ridiculous. His office was in a men’s bathroom. That’s not only not cool, that’s not even sanitary.

I didn’t take pictures. I didn’t. I didn’t. I didn’t. And then I tried. You try, and then you figure out how you do it. And it does not ever have to be perfect. You can cast a fly rod and not be perfect—then lo and behold, there’s a big speckled trout on the end of your line.

trust your tummy, not your head. Your head only knows some things; your tummy knows everything, if you just listen.

Again: trust your tummy, not your head. Your head only knows some things; your tummy knows everything, if you listen.

Wanting to be perceived as cool isn’t about wanting to be “The Fonz”—it’s about minimizing vulnerability in order to reduce the risk of being ridiculed or made fun of. We hustle for our worthiness by slipping on the emotional and behavioral straitjacket of cool and posturing as the tragically hip and the terminally “better than.” Being “in control” isn’t always about the desire to manipulate situations, but often it’s about the need to manage perception.

I’m pretty sure I never let any of it go to my head. The only time I got crazed with a fan was when someone didn’t see me as a person or disrespected me. This still knocks my socks off: once I was in a men’s room and somebody opened the stall and said, “Hey, could I get your autograph?” “Do you know where we are?” I asked.

Growing up, we had a black-and-white Zenith TV in a metal case with fake wood grain that you could pound on. You could beat the shit out of it. It’d go vertical or horizontal or the stabilizer would go off. I’d be trying to watch Maude and it would be all over the place. So I’d come up behind it and do that Fonz move. Boom. And it would straighten out. To fix something back in the day, you didn’t have to be a technician. You’d just slap it on the side or whack it on the top.

Hey, no cracks about the leather if you want my help,” he said. “Oh my god, it’s like I have the Fonz for a brother,” Angie said to Mel. Mel

Go out the door you go in" - meaning the book resolves where it began.

When I'm sent directions to drive to a location, I always say "you know, I look like an adult. But I'm a four year old who can drive." So the directions had better be very precise.

I wasn’t going to get geometry then, or in fifty years.

It has always struck me that our emphasis on the top 10 percent of a class says they are more valuable than the bottom 3 percent. If this country is going to remain strong,

It has always struck me that our emphasis on the top 10 percent of a class says they are more valuable than the bottom 3 percent. If this country is going to remain strong, we need every child to be great at what it is they can do.

He reached into his jacket, grabbed a box, and put it on her knee. “There.” She blinked and then frowned unhappily at it. “Is this a proposal?” Suddenly, he was feeling unsure of himself. He shifted nervously in his seat. “Sorta.” She threw the box firmly back onto his lap. “You’re not proposing to me when there’s blood smeared all across the glass in front of us. Not at a hockey game at all, and not with that blasé attitude. I want fancy romance! I want a bent knee. I don’t want you in your old hockey letterman shirt like you think you’re the Fonz.

Heyyy!

(lots of animal noises) Cool it.... (complete quiet) lets see Tarzan do that...

As you stumble and learn, stumble and learn again, resolve to talk to yourself as if you were your best friend. So no "What a #?%$@ idiot!" when your BFF smashes an egg on the floor, m'kay? Be cool, like the Fonz.