Swanking Urban Quotes & Sayings

I'm not trying to win individual awards. — Chris Webber

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

Three years of changes, moves, uncertainties, upheavals; the war, the revolution; scenes of destruction, scenes of death, shelling, blown-up bridges, fires, ruins - all this turned suddenly into a huge, empty, waste space. The first real event since the long interruption was this vertiginous home-coming by train, in the knowledge that his home was still safe, still existing somewhere, with every smallest stone in it dear to him. This was the point of life, this was experience, this was the quest of adventure seekers and what artists had in mind - this coming home to your family, to yourself, this renewal of life. — Boris Pasternak

plate stacked high with chocolate waffles (slutty pancakes, he called them). — Eric Arvin

I was 16 and got my boyfriend's name tattooed on me. Don't do it. 'Cause it hurts. The moment you do it, the next month, the next year, you'll be broken up - trust me - and cover-ups hurt. You can show your love in other ways. Ink is not it. Write it on a piece of paper and mail it to him. — Lauren London

That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks,
So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets. — Consequence

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough. — Frank Crane

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us? — Bruce Feiler

I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928 ... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him. — Max Schmeling