Oddies Quotes & Sayings

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second. — Fran Lebowitz

I concluded that I'm a competitor. And, whatever happens, you keep leading. You can't fear anybody. Why? Because at the end of the day, I might not be in this job a couple of years from now. I'm here to win. — Masai Ujiri

I'm relaxed at the plate. I'm not trying to do too much. — Johnny Damon

You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at. — W. H. Auden

Activity is contagious. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is life, he thinks, this is why we live, to play like this on a day when winter is finally releasing its grip. — Anthony Doerr

The habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief. — Jose Saramago

The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind. — H.L. Mencken

Mourn. Get it out of your system. Because what you can do for the dead is exactly nothing. But what you can do for those still standing with you is lead. — Robert J. Crane

I got into Goldman really by acquisition because I had gone - I grew up in east New York in the Linden Projects - I did go to fancy schools, but my resume wasn't up to a Wall Street set of resumes. I went to college. I went to law school and practiced for a while. — Lloyd Blankfein

canoe is the most graceful, the most sensitive, the most inexplicable contrivance of man. With its paddle you may dip up stars along quiet shores or steal into the very harbor of dreams. I — Meredith Nicholson

If it rained knowledge, I'd hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it. — Boswell

A caterpillar must endure a season of isolation before it turns into a butterfly. Embrace the time you have alone, it will only make you stronger. — Steven Aitchison

You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings. — Eric Bristow