Pooltime Quotes & Sayings

He had seen highly competent men stand as if paralyzed in a crisis, though once someone took command and told them what to do they might perform splendidly. — Larry McMurtry

In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy. — Dorothy Dunnett

Well, perhaps he's not my best friend, but I don't think he hates me anymore. — Mary Kirchoff

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. — C.S. Lewis

It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being ... until ye change the world of man into the world of God. — Abdu'l- Baha

Every woman knows all about everything. — Rudyard Kipling

Normal is modern-day slavery. Don't be normal. — Peter Voogd

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made. — Ellen J. Barrier

Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university. — Jimmy Breslin

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die? — Charles Lindbergh

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. — Orson Scott Card

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim. — Robin Sharma

Planning on staying?"
"Just till you wise up."
"I'm flattered you think that's a possibility."
"Yeah, well it's lucky I've rolled a lot of vacation. — Josh Lanyon

Canada is built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood

For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice. — Alison Hawthorne Deming