Les Grossman Quotes & Sayings

[W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the sticks on the stream; helter-skelter with the dead leaves on the lawn, irresponsible and disinterested and able, perhaps for the first time for years, to look round, to look up - to look, for example, at the sky. — Virginia Woolf

Simple joys are the great ones. Pleasure is not complicated. — Ethan Hawke

I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place. — Anton Yelchin

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time. — Dizzy Dean

Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers. — Cara Buono

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off. — Naomi Shihab Nye

It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? ... Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain our languages, traditions and knowledge? ... The truth is that I am prone to bouts of doubt and sadness around these questions. But I have hope. Our hope is dependent upon education. Our hope depends on how serious we become about the education of our people. — Noel Pearson

Milk the goats now, Tiffany! Now, Tiffany, d'you hear! The trusting creatures look to you! They wait for you! Tiffany milks the goats. Do it, Tiffany! The hands know how, the mind will remember and grow stronger, Tiffany! — Terry Pratchett

After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived — Robbie Fowler

I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing. — Joshua Roman

People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves. — Dan Wells

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. — Anatole Broyard

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. — Ambrose Bierce

It was one movie. It wasn't supposed to do what it did - nothing was supposed to do that. Nothing ever had. Movies were meant to stay on the screen, flat and large and colorful, gathering you up into their sweep of story, carrying you rollicking along to the end, then releasing you back into your unchanged life. But this movie misbehaved. It leaked out of the theater, poured off the screen, affected a lot of people so deeply that they required endless talismans and artifacts to stay connected to it. Had — Carrie Fisher

And I hold that no man has treated mankind worse than he who has studied philosophy as if it were some marketable trade, who lives in a different manner from that which he advises. — Seneca.