Jimmy Braddock Quotes & Sayings

I have to go around with my shirt open so that I have enough room for my chest. — Laura Hillenbrand

I know why you came. Because you couldn't stay away. I understand that. Now you're just going to have to accept what comes with it. — Nora Roberts

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes. — Victor Hugo

... The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. ... The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier. — David O. McKay

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself. — Brandon Sanderson

We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once. — Orville Wright

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching. — Michael Robotham

Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures. — Lancelot Andrewes

So what do we do now?" asked Alai. "The bugger war's over, and so's the war down there on Earth, and even the war here. What do we do now?" "We're kids," said Petra. "They'll probably make us go to school. It's a law. You have to go to school till you're seventeen." They all laughed at that. — Orson Scott Card

I don't wear makeup on the court, but I always wear sunblock. I love getting done up and wearing makeup away from the court though! — Sloane Stephens

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery. — John Lennon

How you manage yourself between those bright moments, when things aren't going so great, is a measure of how devoted you are to your vocation, and how equipped you are for the weird demands of creative living. Holding yourself together through all the phases of creation is where the real work lies. — Elizabeth Gilbert