Slapshot Quotes & Sayings

After returning from his stint in the minors made reference to the movie Slapshot with: I'm happy to be back. It was never my aspiration as a kid to play in the Federal league. — Glenn Healy

With a story, as with a well-chosen gift, we're happiest when surprised by something we didn't know we wanted. — David Mitchell

I watched 'Mighty Ducks.' 'Slapshot' when I was a little older. — Sidney Crosby

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason. — W. H. Auden

There's no animal that sleep-deprives itself like the human. — Henri Cole

Imagine a skilled botanist accompanied by someone like myself who is largely ignorant of botany taking part in a field trip into the Australian bush, with the objective of collecting observable facts about the native flora. It is undoubtedly the case that the botanist will be capable of collecting facts that are far more numerous and discerning than those I am able to observe and formulate, and the reason is clear. The botanist has a more elaborate conceptual scheme to exploit than myself, and that is because he or she knows more botany than I do. A knowledge of botany is a prerequisite for the formulation of the observation statements that might constitute its factual basis.
Thus, the recording of observable facts requires more than the reception of the stimuli, in the form of light rays, that impinge on the eye. It requires the knowledge of the appropriate conceptual scheme and how to apply it. — Alan F. Chalmers

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing. — Victoria Justice

A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset ... to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest. — Charles H. Percy

If you think only of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself. — Eric Felten

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder. — Mahatma Gandhi

The fastest journey is achieved on foot — Adele Griffin

God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual part alone he touches the intelligence only which has flowed and been derived from himself into these bodies. And if thou also usest thyself to do this, thou wilt rid thyself of thy much trouble. For he who regards not the poor flesh which envelops him, surely will not trouble himself by looking after raiment and dwelling and fame and such like externals and show. — Marcus Aurelius