Lyall Smith Quotes & Sayings

As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge. — Don Meyer

in front of the embers for a long time. DORY AND I WERE SITTING together in the blue room, and while Dory fed Campbell, I held Sukey. It was an early week in December, the first — Kathleen Grissom

The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. — Jim Rohn

Is it necessary to add that the echoes of many characteristic tales, dating from that picturesque time, still linger about here, in more or less fragmentary form to be caught by the attentive ear? Some of them I have repeated; most of them I have forgotten; one I have never repeated, and assuredly can never forget. — Thomas Hardy

We're out of nuclear crisis mode and into normal, day-to-day crisis mode. — Ray Nagin

We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down — Andre Glucksmann

He woke up blearily, got up, wandered blearily round his room, opened a window, saw a bulldozer, found his slippers, and stomped off to the bathroom to wash. Toothpaste on the brush - so. Scrub. Shaving mirror - pointing at the ceiling. He adjusted it. For a moment it reflected a second bulldozer through the bathroom window. — Douglas Adams

The pig was soon dissected and its blood filled the bucket in the bottom of which a patch of sky was reflected darkly. It had surrendered to the vortex of life and his breathing. — Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. — Francis Bacon

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. — Jonathan Swift

You need to become a winner to go beyond winning and losing. — Frederick Lenz

Being a dad is the best thing that ever happened to me. It changed my life entirely. — Jake Busey

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it. — Oliver Stone

I've just had a really evil idea."
"My favourite kind — Joss Stirling