Leaderboard Masters Quotes & Sayings

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind. — Ruth Buzzi

How can the daughter of an whore ever think to hold the heart of a King? — Jen A. Durand

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction. — Kelly Link

Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours of beauty from however far away, as driftwood is found at sea from islands not yet discovered: and this spring-tide or current that visits the blood of man comes from the fabulous quarter of his lineage, from the legendary, the old; it takes him out to the woodlands, out to the hills; he listens to ancient song. — Lord Dunsany

What would have happened if Derrick Rose had torn his knee in college, or Greg Oden? It would have cost them millions of dollars. They were lucky, coming out early. I'm not saying don't go to college. There are plenty of players like Shaq [O'Neal] who went back and graduated. I commend that. But do it at your leisure - don't hurt your finances. — Sonny Vaccaro

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. — George W. Bush

We worship ... the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can't even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176] — Guy Gavriel Kay

N artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty. — William Dean Howells

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one — Bobby Fischer

He is at once a great lazybones, pitifully ambitious, and famous for unhappiness; for his entire life he has had practically nothing but half-baked ideas. The sun of laziness, which ceaselessly glows within him, vaporizes him and gnaws away that half-genius that heaven bestowed upon him. — Charles Baudelaire

Now I have new stories and I feel refreshed. There is talk of Bobby's World eventually coming back. I would be happy to do that. — Howie Mandel

If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are! — Andrew Bonar

In fact, she was happy for Iko, who took more delight in her new body than most humans ever did. — Marissa Meyer

You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion. — Mike Rowe

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written. — Eliza Griswold