Slugging Vaseline Quotes & Sayings

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Prologue When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat. — Richard Paul Evans

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball. — Mark Teixeira

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light. — Madeleine Albright

I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange

No matter what ... always try to keep peace in your soul! — Timothy Pina

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people. — Phyllis Smith

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special. — Alan King

But you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask. — Elizabeth McCracken

Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. — Diane Setterfield

It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts. — Gilbert Ryle

If I look at you" - he pointed to a very old woman who seemed to be teetering in her chair on the far left-hand end of the first row - "and I see not woman, not person, but piece of the energy of God, the same energy that is inside me, how can I hurt you? How can I able to think bad on you? No. You see?" The — Roland Merullo

The light within you is divine. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles. — Jim George