Sholem Pool Quotes & Sayings

Someone came up to me and told me that [his opponent's] knee was hurt, and he said to me, attack his knee, I'm like, 'Yeah right, I'm not going out to attack this guy's knee.' It just doesn't ... it's not realistic to go after his injury, unless they got a cut the same week, then it's like, yeah, hit him in the eye, because the [expletive] is going to re-open and now you wouldn't fight on the cut. Maybe on a cut you want to take advantage of it, that makes sense. — Nick Diaz

She's a big girl, Syd, and Deke is not an ogre. He doesn't eat little pixies for breakfast and pick his teeth with their bones. — Jenny Lyn

If it is money, you will choose a place for your apprenticeship that offers the biggest paycheck. Inevitably, in such a place you will feel greater pressures to prove yourself worthy of such pay, often before you are really ready. — Robert Greene

Vitanda est improba siren desidia. (One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.) — Horace

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward. — Jim Leach

I noticed that once you realize
someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself
watching them back. — Meg Rosoff

There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has been Brian and me and two assistants, although we're growing a little bit now. He read the [The Hunger Games] book and loved it, and told me I should read it. He had been a fan of the Gregor books. So, I read it and couldn't put it down and couldn't stop thinking about it. I really became obsessed with the thought of producing it, and was completely bothered by the idea that anybody but me could produce it. — Nina Jacobson

The right timing hinges on a narrow window of opportunity. — Steven Redhead

The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman. — Stephen Richards

Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer. — Merrit Malloy

I'm a super hero and I'm in a phone booth but those things have nothing in common with each other; I just come here to cry. — Christy Leigh Stewart