1956 1960 Quotes & Sayings

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest. — Mary MacLane

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. — Frank A. Clark

But we were just picnicking friends — Douglas Preston

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills. — Cate Marvin

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. — Caitlin Flanagan

That which comes slow comes solid. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes. — Brian Dennehy

Life's tempering and altering process often takes the form of adversity, and, as far as outward appearances are concerned, seems to be working against us when it is actually working for us. — Chris Prentiss

Life should be an unfinished business. — Colin Fletcher

Correct spelling, correct punctuation, correct grammar. Hundreds of rules for itsy-bitsy people. No one could remember all that stuff and concentrate on what he was trying to write about. It was all table manners, not derived from any sense of kindness or decency or humanity, but originally from an egotistic desire to look like gentlemen and ladies. Gentlemen and ladies had good table manners and spoke and wrote grammatically. It was what identified one with the upper classes. In Montana, however, it didn't have this effect at all. It identified one, instead, as a stuck-up Eastern ass. — Robert M. Pirsig

Every few years, in the world of sport, someone ascends to the most rarefied of all levels - the one at which it becomes news not when they win, but when they lose. It must have been like that in the early Fifties, when a tubby Italian called Alberto Ascari was stitching together nine Grand Prix wins in a row, a record not even Fangio, Clark or Senna could match. Or when the great Real Madrid side of Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas won the first five European Cup finals, between 1956 and 1960. Or when Martina Navratilova dominated Wimbledon's Centre Court, winning nine ladies' singles titles in thirteen years. The current Australian cricket team is in just such a run at present, having just completed nine consecutive victories, putting them four wins away from establishing an all-time record. And then there is Tiger Woods. — Richard Williams

The present grows within the boundaries of the past. — Simon Van Booy