Shying Wholesale Quotes & Sayings

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions. — Pete Rose

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet. — Yehuda Amichai

In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it, that blacks are inherently inferior to whites or that homosexuals are all, by definition, sick. So what? Even if either condition truly is inherently undesirable, no manner of social pressure will turn blacks into whites or gays into straights. Social pressure will only exaggerate the handicap. It is still the prejudice, more than the condition, that does the harm. — Andrew Tobias

Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves ... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot. — Keith Rabois

They are surprisingly tall
eight-year-olds. They are surprisingly like real people. Of course your own babies are always real to you, they are all there from the word go, but even strangers' children look like proper people by the aged of eight ... — Anne Enright

Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n. — Byron Katie

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. — Walter Lippmann

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older. — Florence Welch

Most smiles are started by another smile. — E.C. McKenzie

Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination. — Kahlil Gibran

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and- and if you're lucky, next week. — Garrison Keillor

Weariness of Men

My grandmother said when she was young
The grass was so wild and high
You couldn't see a man on horseback.

In the fields she made out
Three barns,
Dark and blown down from the weather
Like her husbands.

She remembers them in the dark,
Cursing the beasts,
And how they would leave the bed
In the morning,
The dead grass of their eyes
Stacked against her. — Frank Stanford

What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters. — Adam Green

I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face. — Jeremy Sisto