Centreman Quotes & Sayings

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued. — Thomas Beecham

Joey glanced at his alarm clock and saw it was just before midnight. His eyes drifted to his bookshelf. Lined up in a row, in the order of their publication, were all of the Spook Boys books, a series of kids' books about two adventurous brothers who were constantly getting into mischief as they explored haunted houses and spooky old castles, or tried to solve mysteries involving missing diamonds or stolen paintings. Joey envied the characters in those books - he wanted his own life to be made up of such exciting, implausible adventures. But maybe his imagination had gotten carried away. Maybe his mind, saturated with such fictional tales, was more than willing to play tricks on him when it came to houses like the one on Creep Street. — The Blood Brothers

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. — Steven Grayhm

He was furious, and that was reflected in his passion to start what was, no matter how he spun it, a rival company. — Walter Isaacson

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved. — Martin Luther

The world is round. — Cristoforo Colombo

Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong. — William Browne

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work. — Achille Silvestrini

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go. — Gordie Howe

You put too much stock in intelligence," Marcia teased him. "It doesn't annihilate human nature." "That's — Philip Roth

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard ... Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again. — Charles De Lint

Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope. — Rainer Maria Rilke