Marlyne Afflack Quotes & Sayings

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. — Chris Evert

You learned this," Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, "from a book."
"Er ... yes?"
He looked back at the picture. "I need to read more. — Brandon Sanderson

Not to decide is to decide. — Harvey Cox

And so I stand, a little sightless. So I walk
Away on wheels, instead of legs, they serve as well.
And learn to speak with fingers, not a tongue.
The body is resourceful. — Sylvia Plath

And she cries even more, for the way the universe keeps throwing her together with the players in her son's tragedy, like handfuls of dust. — Clara Chow

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. — Georges Duhamel

A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury - and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season. Also, there is the willingness to prepare in the offseason, the film room, to learn the scheme and execute without a lot of repetition - that's football character. — Brendan Daly

A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern. — Aaron Sorkin

Now, radical forward thinking is offering hope for the future: Replacement body parts to order. A team of scientists in California believe that if you can design them on a computer, you should be able to print them out. — Stephen Hawking

I'd turn and run but I'm anchored by two dudes that could hold the Titanic during a tsunami. — Karen Marie Moning

Kay is a sandcastle on the beach, and I'm a fucking hurricane. I'd not only wash her away, I'd fucking destroy her. — S.R. Grey

Great powers can tend to be casual because the situation is not existential. This increases the cost of doing what is necessary. — George Friedman