Bespattering Quotes & Sayings

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian. — Robert A. Heinlein

You know me, I love lost causes. — Mort Sahl

Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes — Meg Rosoff

If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find. — Roger Clemens

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation. — Elias Hicks

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. — Henry Rollins

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve. — Julie Walters

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine. — Elbert Hubbard

Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around. — Debby Ryan

I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat" ... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific ... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this. — Jack Kerouac

In a game, there are so many different variables that are thrown at you - the defense, where your teammates are, how fast your body's moving, and you have to be in control of all those decisions. — Stephen Curry

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going. — John Green

The professional cannot take rejection personally because to do so reinforces Resistance. Editors are not the enemy; critics are not the enemy. Resistance is the enemy. The battle is inside our own heads. We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already. — Steven Pressfield