Sports Fest Quotes & Sayings

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it. — Michael Sims

Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are. — Will Rogers

A sage's tongue is a little less than a prophet's;
a prophet's tongue is a little less than an angel's. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking that medicine is more closely aligned to the humanities than to the sciences. I can't help thinking that I could learn more about being a good doctor from William Shakespeare than I could from Isaac Newton. After all, isn't understanding people at least as important as understanding pathology? — Michael J. Collins

... it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour constitute a hazard to society. If unpleasantness is to be avoided, they must be made to go outdoors and work off their animal spirits. — Alan Bradley

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident. — Mahatma Gandhi

There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good. — Barbara Kingsolver

The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it. — Hal Holbrook

The thinking brain influences the body's responses and it makes a neat little loop. — Brad Warner

Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains. — Martial

How vast a memory has Love! — Alexander Pope

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything. — Diana Vreeland

I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake. — Walter Scott