Repeating Champion Quotes & Sayings

Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin. — Andy Hertzfeld

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me. — Bode Miller

I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union. — Thomas R. Marshall

had given an oath and honor binds us to paths we might not choose. — Bernard Cornwell

There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned. — John Irving

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair. — Blaise Pascal

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing. — Delta Burke

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not. — Audrey Tautou

He'd been out of the scene for a while. Life as a sexual Dominant had its perks and just as many pitfalls. He'd taken a break, taken some time to pull himself back together, but in the back of his mind he knew he wasn't out of the game forever. The game had consumed too much of his life for him to really let go. — Rebekah Weatherspoon

As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces- growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying- and at any given moment of our lives, each one of us is actively located somewhere along a continuum between these two forces. — Audre Lorde

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era,
then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem. — John Jay Chapman

Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.' — Chuck Schumer

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen. — Michael Caine