Ballyard Quotes & Sayings

I've learned to expect the worst from people who hold power. — Dan Brown

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim. — Robert Charles Wilson

Wipe the pap of your mother's breast off thy lips and give me a hatful of that dirt,' the man with his chin on the ground said. 'No one of us will see the sun go down this night. — Ernest Hemingway,

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations. — J.D. Salinger

Kim Il Sung not only presided over the birth of a new nation in an old land, he was inextricably bound to the fate of North Korea. Perhaps to a greater degree than any other modern political leader, he may be seen as the full embodiment of the state. Indeed, Kim was more integral to state and society in North Korea than Stalin in the Soviet Union, or Mao in China. — Kim Il-sung

Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture. — Christine Pelosi

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. — Sarah Kay

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become. — Tucker Max

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe. — Erica Jong

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white. — Samuel Goldwyn

Never would I become so dependent on a man I couldn't make my way in the world, no matter what cruel blow life delivered! — V.C. Andrews

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. — Joe E. Lewis