Ginormous Rocket Quotes & Sayings

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. — Elliot Richardson

Some of my college friends used to laugh at me. But no one's laughing anymore. Now, they all try to get free underwear. — Garrett Neff

I'm not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie! — James Coco

That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident. — Alice Hoffman

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.' — Tracy McMillan

Shut your eyes and you can often see more; block your ears and you can often hear more, but close your mind and you may never know more. — Barry Cheskin

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system. — Eliot Spitzer

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic." — Joseph Boyden

Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity. — Maurice Druon

Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics - all those profundities which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent I, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable — Victor Hugo

If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain. — D. A. Pennebaker

Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal identities which should be disappearing in a world where a European Union and globalization are happily shredding such ancient sentiments. Another similar widely spread thesis that holds that the root cause of violence can be found in the pace of the game itself. Because goals come so irregularly, fans spend far too much time sublimating their emotions, anticipating but never releasing. When those emotions swell and become uncontainable, the fans erupt into dark, Dionysian fits of ecstatic violence. — Franklin Foer