Lxxvi Number Quotes & Sayings

That was when it came to him that the only unmixed happiness he could think of was when he quit his job with the city after that fight with Bob Wright. So he told Doc that, too, and said, "I never meant to be a lawman. Stumbled into it, really. When I quit, it was a weight off." Dealing — Mary Doria Russell

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to. — Aubrey De Grey

I was very, very eager to work. It's just the way I am. — Phoebe Philo

In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms. — John Banville

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition. — C. A. Bartol

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence
providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. — Studs Terkel

New Orleans that summer, but really I was running toward it. Sometimes you have to take flight to find your way home. — Alyssa Rose Ivy

Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it. — Davy Jones

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life. — Thomas Jane

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions. — Charles Edward Merriam

I don't believe in one ideal beauty. — Zac Posen

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. — Thomas Love Peacock

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race. — Haile Gebrselassie

My favorite fighter is Phil Baroni, and I'm pretty sure it's yours too. — Phil Baroni