Embassador Quotes & Sayings

'Hollywood Don't Surf!' is really about how Hollywood's superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that. — Greg MacGillivray

And also celebrate the Skill of the Scythians in that Art, who sent once to Darius King of Persia an Embassador that made him a present of a Bird, a Frog, a Mouse, and five Arrows, without speaking one word; and being ask'd what those Presents meant, and if he had Commission to say any thing, answer'd that he had not; Which puzzl'd and gravell'd Darius very much; till Gobrias, one of the seven Captains that had kil'd the Magi explain'd it, saying to Darius, By these Gifts and Offerings the Scythians silently tell you, that except the Persians like Birds fly up to Heaven, like Mice hide themselves near the Centre of the Earth, or like Frogs dive to the very bottom of Ponds and Lakes, they shall be destroyed by the Power and Arrows of the Scythians. — Francois Rabelais

What he knows now is that guilt isn't the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV. — Stephen King

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace. — Thurston Moore

I just have a lot off different influences. — Mose Allison

Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children — Madeleine Bunting

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair. — Erich Von Stroheim

In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it leaves one body and before it reaches the other ... and if we admit this medium as an hypothesis, I think it ought to occupy a prominent place in our investigations, and that we ought to endeavour to construct a mental representation of all the details of its action, and this has been my constant aim in this treatise. — James Clerk Maxwell

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again. — Robert Graves

And I have no intention of going out with him just because he's "in love" with me. Which he's probably not. Because why would he be? I'm not pretty, and I like to use words with a lot of letters in them - two big turn-offs for guys. — Louise Rozett

If you're such a shallow person that a goddamn bumper sticker can sum up your beliefs, then Jesus Christ, are you even worth fighting for in the end? — Jason Myers

Humming the Star Wars theme to encourage myself, I wobbled onto my feet. Sometimes a girl's gotta provide her own trumpet-heavy heroic soundtrack. — Shannon Hale

Your authority extends only to the performance of action; obtaining or not obtaining the fruit is never within your control; therefore, do not be one who performs action with a motive that a specific fruit should be obtained; nor insist on not-performing action. — William Milcetich

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen. — Johnny Damon