Sobem Donation Quotes & Sayings

Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do. — Jude Morgan

The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.
Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends ... — Hunter S. Thompson

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them. — Ernest Hemingway,

That man was Aldus Manutius the Elder (1450-1515) and I will happily admit I hadn't heard of him until about a year ago, but am now absolutely kicking myself that I never volunteered to have his babies. — Lynne Truss

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man' jurisdiction. — Sunday Adelaja

Chiropractic is founded upon different principles than those of medicine. — Daniel D. Palmer

Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already. — Alan Paton

Parents who tell their offspring that sex is an act performed only for procreation do everyone a serious disservice. — Maya Angelou

When we understand all that constitutes the cognitive unconscious, our understanding of the nature of consciousness is vastly enlarged. Consciousness goes way beyond mere awareness of something, beyond the mere experience of qualia, beyond the awareness that you are aware, and beyond the multiple takes on immediate experience provided by various centers of the brain. Consciousness certainly involves all of the above plus the immeasurably vaster constitutive framework provided by the cognitive unconscious, which must be operating for us to be aware of anything at all. — George Lakoff

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. — Emily Dickinson

Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are. — Michael Jordan

If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose depravity of the twentieth century. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not a writer, director or producer. — Martin Freeman

Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one. — Percy Bysshe Shelley