Famous Pole Vaulting Quotes & Sayings

I was just reviewed by Robert Gottlieb, who was my editor at The New Yorker, and he sort of wondered at the fact that I still need to exorcise my parents at my age. I think he makes a basic mistake in thinking that exorcism can ever be total. The exorcism of your parents will still be occurring on your own deathbed. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

In the movie of your entire life, do you want drama and conflict or a straight shot to the top, unencumbered? — James Franco

If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that's undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive. — Bill Bailey

General Studies
Question: Redundancy is often an unpleasant and unexpected event in someone's life. Give two examples of unexpected life events.

Answer: 1) death 2) Reincarnation — Richard Benson

But I have vertigo ... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall. — Rodney Atkins

I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires. — Andrew Motion

To rise at six, to dine at ten,
To sup at six, to sleep at ten,
Makes a man live for ten times ten. — Victor Hugo

The link between man and the world is broken. Henceforth, this link must become an object of belief: it is the impossible which can only be restored within a faith. Belief is no longer addressed to a different or transformed world. Man is in the world as if in a pure optical and sound situation. The reaction of which man has been dispossessed can be replaced only by belief. Only belief in the world can reconnect man to what he sees and hears. The cinema must film, not the world, but belief in this world, our only link. — Gilles Deleuze

I feel like I have little to give. — Blake Crouch

Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is this power reduced to a science. Governments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then. — Lucy Parsons

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent. — Steve Largent

This sounds simple enough - honor the viewpoints of others! - — Ed Catmull

High politic is only common sense applied to great things. — Napoleon Bonaparte