Stoudemire Nba Quotes & Sayings

Every year I will stock my locker up with body wash, different lotions, different oils, and different creams. — Amar'e Stoudemire

It's easy to want to be an author. You see it in your mind with sun streaming through windows and a Siamese cat purring on an antique rug and a little pellet stove and somehow the bills are paid and there's wit and self-sufficiency and divine inspiration seeping through walls and pores. And then, in your mind, you skip ahead to a book launch party and more Siamese cats.

When you graduate from wanting to working, you say, "I am going to flesh out this idea and write the whole thing down, and rewrite it, and rewrite it again, and rewrite it unendingly, and I'll have no real assurance of when it'll be good enough, but at some point I'll pitch it to someone who will decide if I'm delusional or not." The optimism and the ego-bruising, unsexy work needed to follow through feels unending. — Kate Inglis

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist ... — Oscar Wilde

I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs ... — Juelz Santana

I am magnetically drawn to images, whether they're paintings, photographs, film, or video. They are all lodestones of inspiration to me. — Twyla Tharp

To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game. — Amar'e Stoudemire

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no. — Roger Ebert

In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him. — Amar'e Stoudemire

I watch a lot of television. I always have. — Aaron Tveit

If someone can do it, why can't you be that someone to someone. — Koundeenya Dhulipalla

Most people aren't trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding. — Charles Eames

The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being. — Nelson Mandela

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men. — Sir Fulke Greville

When I think back on it, it was as if I had the Claw already, more than a year before I got it. I can't describe how he looked when he rolled his eye up to see me. He touched my heart. I never revived an animal when I had the Claw, but then I never tried. When I was among them, I was usually wishing I could kill one, because I wanted something to eat. Now I'm no longer sure that killing animals to eat is something we are meant to do. — Gene Wolfe

When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours. — Ilona Andrews

Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days, And the secret to its meaning is found in simple ways. — Kai Knudsen

I never had a doubt that I would make it to the NBA, even when I wasn't playing. — Amar'e Stoudemire