Famous Hurling Quotes & Sayings

I know it's thankless to be sensible in the face of someone's primitive distrust. — Don DeLillo

The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid. — Richard Cantillon

In today's world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Last winter Prince Hrobarik, not being so gracious, tried to hire me to find a beauty who, sick of his vulgar advances, had fled the ball, losing a slipper. It was difficult to convince him that he needed a huntsman, and not a witcher. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Opportunities? I make opportunities. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I will be conveyed to an Emergency Room of some kind, where I will be detained as long as I do not respond to questions, and then, when I do respond to questions, I will be sedated; so it will be an inversion of standard travel, the ambulance and ER: I'll make the journey first, then depart. — David Foster Wallace

There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make fotr the eruption of volcanos in the Torrid areas ... The upper portion of Europe will be changed in the blink of an eye. The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. — Edgar Cayce

The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia's constitution was absolutism moderated by assassination. — Alan Beattie

The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence. — Joseph Addison

In me the tiger sniffs the rose. — Siegfried Sassoon

I know everything because I know nothing. — Adam Carolla