Mccovey Statue Quotes & Sayings

of the purely sensuous instinct of boyhood had been transformed by the workings of the imagination, changed into something that seemed to the lad himself to be remote from sense, and was for that — Oscar Wilde

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing. — Charles Dudley Warner

Ach, sure being beaten doesn't matter a whole lot in Ireland; we're good at it. But not to have fought at all, now that would have been a tragedy. — A.G. Lyttle

Men who suffer not, attain no perfection. The plant most pruned by the gardeners is that one which, when the summer comes, will have the most beautiful blossoms and the most abundant fruit. The laborer cuts up the earth with his plough, and from that earth comes the rich and plentiful harvest. The more a man is chastened, the greater is the harvest of spiritual virtues shown forth by him. — Abdu'l- Baha

We are all precancerous. — George Carlin

You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend. — Vera Farmiga

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live — Benjamin Franklin

[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't have to bring them back. — Stephen Hawking

The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers. — Sara Teasdale

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff. — Paul Weller

Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing ... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter. — David Gilmour