Sb 1062 Quotes & Sayings

I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar. — William Congreve

One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life. — Jesse Owens

People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from. — Fran Lebowitz

You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners ... — Kristen Schaal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. — Stendhal

Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep. — Judas Iscariot

The biggest thing this has in common with almost all of our records is the dualities are still there. We kind of stripped down the other things we were writing about, and that's what was left. A lot of good things have happened to us in the last couple of years both as a band and in our personal lives. But something as wonderful as having children also brings along these new fears and terrors and responsibilities. — Patterson Hood

She'd just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no words to say, or even breath to speak them with. All her life she'd always had such trouble with words: finding them and losing them, hoarding them and wasting them. — Penn Williamson

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

But Andrew was right about one thing. Human beings need to tell stories. Historically, it's the quickest way we have for transmitting useful information to other members of our species. Stories are not simply nice things to have; they are essential survival tools.
And yes, the stories we tell ourselves are just as important as the stories we tell other people. — Hugh MacLeod

Second chances are not that important. What's important, is being ready when the first chance
is given. — Jay Long

He'd never asked her whether she would prefer to have a master again, and now the thought of such a conversation made his throat tighten. In a sense it would be like asking someone whether they'd like to escape their present difficulties by killing themselves — Helene Wecker

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world. — Jane Austen