Crudely Def Quotes & Sayings

Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job. — Jonathan Horton

I leaned my back against an oak Thinking it was a trusty tree. But first it bent, And then it broke And let me down as my love did me. - "The Water Is Wide," traditional folk song — Jill Barnett

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York. — Roddy McDowall

He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord. — Zhuangzi

I would like my kids to follow their bliss. — Dennis Quaid

Cultures define their gods when they're young and primitive, when their main concern is survival. They endow their gods with survival characteristics like omnipotence and authoritarianism, belligerence and suspicion, and that's what goes into all their myths or scriptures. Then, if they survive long enough, they begin to develop morality. They examine their own history, and they learn that authoritarianism doesn't accord with free will, that belligerence and suspicion are unhealthful, but this newly moral culture is stuck with its bigoted, interfering gods, plus it's stuck with people who prefer the old bloody gods and use them as their justification for doing all kinds of awful things. — Sheri S. Tepper

Everything starts with the customer. — Lou Gerstner

Many young people strangely boast of being "motivated"; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It's up to them to discover what they're being made to serve, just as their elders discovered, not without difficulty, the telos of the disciplines. The coils of a serpent are even more complex that the burrows of a molehill. — Stephen Graham