Moniria Quotes & Sayings

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test. — Ashton Eaton

You need the art in order to love the life. — Nicholson Baker

But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy? — T.C. Boyle

Take a trip in my mind
see all that I've seen,
and you'd be called a
beast, not a human being ...
Fuck it, cause there's
not much I can do,
there's no way out, my
screams have no voice no
matter how loud I shout ...
I could be called a
low life, but life ain't
as low as me. I'm
in juvenile hall headed
for the penitentiary.
George Trevino, sixteen, Who Am I? — Edward Humes

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place. — Billie Jean King

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. — Sophocles

There remains a mirror, on the hall wall. If I turn my head so that the white wings framing my face direct my vision towards it, I can see it as I go down the stairs, round, convex, a pier-glass, like the eye of a fish, and myself in it like a distorted shadow, a parody of something, some fairytale figure in a red cloak, descending towards a moment of carelessness that is the same as danger. A Sister, dipped in blood. — Margaret Atwood

That speech (Daniel Webster's) raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart. — Robert A. Caro

I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate. — John Catsimatidis

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar