Straubs Clayton Quotes & Sayings

Success - is not about defeating others; but about defeating oneself — Ashok Kallarakkal

Small world, huh?"
She grinned lewdly. "Not particularly. I'd say you've just run out of material. — Armistead Maupin

Causes of Variability - Effects of Habit and the use and disuse of Parts - Correlated Variation - Inheritance - Character of Domestic Varieties - Difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species - Origin of Domestic Varieties from one or more Species - Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin - Principles of Selection, anciently followed, their Effects - Methodical and Unconscious Selection - Unknown Origin of our Domestic Productions - Circumstances favourable to Man's power of Selection. — Charles Darwin

Really! But weren't you fearfully tempted?'
'In the abstract but not in the concrete,' said Ursula. 'When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted - oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only tempted NOT to.' The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement. — D.H. Lawrence

Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here. Let those we love and left behind be blessed. Let us find the proper path and keep to it. Help us act harmoniously, and find work pleasing in the sight of god and man. — Janet Morris

I believe America has gone a long way down the wrong road. If we ever needed God's help, it is now. — Billy Graham

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this. — Yohan Blake

A universal truth of bicycling is this - pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. — Robert Penn

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. — P. J. O'Rourke

The true strength of any relationship is measured in bad times not good. — Miles J. Stanford

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression
a kind of rudimentary theater
as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means. — John Barth

He had a skull and crossbones label on him, but I drank his poison nevertheless and loved it; now I needed an antidote. — Genna Rulon