Sitting Courtside Quotes & Sayings

Ka speaks and the wind blows! — Stephen King

That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth. — Mary Renault

Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe that anymore-this is not to say that you should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck is a big part of many successes, so (a) don't get too bummed out when you see a bozo succeed; and (b) luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open before a Peking duck flies in your mouth." — Guy Kawasaki

Bear patiently with a rival. — Ovid

In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of imagination and fantasy. A cross-channel ferry, with its overfilled ashtrays and vomiting children, is as good a place as any to reflect on the angel who stands with a flaming sword in front of the gateway to all our yesterdays. — John Lanchester

What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. — Charles Bukowski

I'm not here only just for a visit; but I'm here cuz' i knew I'm HOME. — Kent Ian N. Cny

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else. — Rita Coolidge

Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten. — Phyllis Chesler

If I'm going to an event I make sure I plan ahead so that I don't have a fashion crisis. — Kate Moss

What if one of the times I Changed, when I turned back into myself, I didn't do it quite right? What if this isn't even my true face? — Cassandra Clare

All learning is useful, all the sciences are curious, all the arts are beautiful; but the most useful, most curious and most beautiful is perfect knowledge and perfect government of oneself. — Frances Wright

The entire stock of relationships which suited in war - militiae - was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace - domi. We have the measure of how right the Romans were in this respect in the experience of the intellectual and moral impoverishment brought about by total mobilisation. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them. — Oscar Wilde

I sing only for you! Tonight I gave you my soul, and I'm dead! — Gaston Leroux