Birthday Wish For My Namesake Quotes & Sayings

He (Thomas Smith) believed with complete conviction that no animal was permanently ruined. Every horse could be improved. He lived by a single maxim: 'Learn your horse. Each one is an individual, and once you penetrate his mind and heart, you can often work wonders with an otherwise intractable beast. — Laura Hillenbrand

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. — Albert Einstein

Imagination is the voice of the daring. — Henry Miller

The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially ... it's a very intimidating place. The intimidation can be very thin, or it can stop you. — Stanley Cavell

Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket ... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go ... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing! — Norm MacDonald

The winner of the first point is the loser of the last. — Michael Stean

What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a right way, a wrong way, and my way.' You want to see how that looks on the page, pick up any of Craig McDonald's novels. He's built him a nice little shack out there way off all the reg'lar roads, and he's brewing some fine, heady stuff. Leave your money under the rock and come back in an hour. — James Sallis

It is difficult and painful for the ear to listen to anything new; we hear strange music badly. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature. — Herman Melville