Standover Man Quotes & Sayings

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin. — Clarence Thomas

We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball. — Nikesh Shukla

When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them. — Zig Ziglar

Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed. — Jarvis Cocker

A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic. — Bill Russell

There is no reason to learn divine truths if we do not apply them in our hearts and minds, live them out daily, and defend them in the public square when we are given the opportunity to glorify God in so doing. — James R. White

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet. — Ron Eglash

Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no. — George Ryan

Like any wife, she hates her husband for challenging her. — Victoria Aveyard

Man with right thinking is awake and can see everything; man with wrong thinking is asleep and can see nothing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories. — Guy Sajer

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. — Russell Banks