Prizefighter Organization Quotes & Sayings

All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap. — Camille Paglia

The more polished a diamond the more valuable it is;
the more tested a man the more refined he is. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn't know how to deal with what came after the feeling. — Julie Murphy

It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

You poor darling," said his wife, coming quickly to his side. She cradled his head against her breasts, a position he unaccountably loathed as much as she was fond of putting him in it, but which he tolerated now for tactical reasons. "What you need is a nice strong drink," she said. — L.J. Davis

The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end. — Cormac McCarthy

She'd have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently. — Maya Corrigan

With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another. — Jorge Luis Borges

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts. — John Oliver

We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please. — Patti Smith

I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world. — Dominick Dunne

The modern scientific method in which experiments form part of a structured system of hypothesis, experimentation, and analysis is as recent as the seventeenth century; the problem-solving technology of cooking goes back thousands of years. — Bee Wilson

In all other construction disciplines, engineers plan a construction strategy that craftmen execute. Engineers don't build bridges; ironworkers do. Only in software is the engineer tasked with actually building the product. Only in software is the "ironworker" tasked with determining how the product will be constructed. — Alan Cooper