Old Seafarer Quotes & Sayings

We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer. — Dan O'Brien

Comfort makes fools of us that way, and a kid gets faith back quick. — Mary Karr

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful. — Elvin Jones

But my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it. — Leo Tolstoy

Fools make news, and wise men carry it. — Dorothy Dunnett

He saves his iciest hate for economists. Taleb has no use for the "charlatanic" field, comparing economic research to medieval medicine. — Anonymous

You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent. — Alan Shearer

After tonight, Safiya fon Hasstrel would be free. — Susan Dennard

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories. — David Talbot

To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen. — Marshall Curry

If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else. — Stompin' Tom Connors

There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's sheer, unadulterated discomfort you're looking for, just stay on land. — Michael Palin

But one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood. — Adam Smith

There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams ... — James Salter