Backley Throw Quotes & Sayings

My bench never heard me mention winning. My whole emphasis was for each one of my players to try to learn to execute the fundamentals to the best of their ability. Not to try to be better than somebody else, but to learn from others, and never cease trying to be the best they could be; that's what I emphasized more than anything else. — John Wooden

Harry ... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents ... — J.K. Rowling

He could do anything and it would be right, for he had made himself a willing puppet of God's purpose and in so doing freed himself. He alone free, surrounded by slaves. — Joe Abercrombie

Whether you know Jack Ryan or you don't know Jack Ryan, he's a compelling person to spend time with. — David Barron

The average person in Jericho of 8500 BC lived a harder life than the average person in Jericho of 9500 BC or 13,000 BC. But nobody realised what was happening. Every generation continued to live like the previous generation, making only small improvements here and there in the way things were done. Paradoxically, a series of 'improvements', each of which was meant to make life easier, added up to a millstone around the necks of these farmers. Why — Yuval Noah Harari

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else. — Daniel Handler

Love and dignity do not dwell together. — Ovid

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits. — Matt Taibbi

What ever you do-Don't get caught. — Catherine Jinks

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good. — Chris Evans

Our spiritual ancestors have also given birth to us, and they, tol, continue to give birth to us. — Thich Nhat Hanh

What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs. — Steven Chu

Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count. — Walter Tevis