Syers And Iverson Quotes & Sayings

He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance. — Simon Munnery

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage. — Richard Watson Gilder

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be. — Kerri Walsh

I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital. — Martin Scorsese

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race. — Henry Ward Beecher

DEPARTURE
The horizon slopes away
The days are longer
Trip
A heart hops in a cage
A bird sings
It is going to die
Another door is going to open
At the end of the corridor
Where a star
Begins to shine
A dark-haired woman
The lantern of the departing train
("Departure") — Pierre Reverdy

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet. — George Horace Lorimer

I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit. — Patrick Lussier

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another. — Fred Brooks

Money is the best rule of commerce. — William Petty

The term in baseball nowadays is a "walk-off home run." It didn't exist until Kirk Gibson hit his famous pinch-hit home run off Dennis Eckersley in game one of the 1988 World Series and Eckersley referred to it as "a walk-off," meaning, quite simply, that when someone does what Gibson did to him in that game, there's nothing left to do except walk off the mound into the dugout and then into the clubhouse. — John Feinstein

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns. — Ayn Rand

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass ... , I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour. — Edgar Allan Poe

The earth belongs to Allah, we're just visitors - sojourners. — Janette Grant