Tropic Thunder Kirk Lazarus Quotes & Sayings

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem. — Ricky Williams

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained. — Kenneth Rexroth

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. — Peggy Noonan

Tools refer to one another to finally refer to our care for existing. In turning on a bathroom switch, we open up the entire ontological problem — Emmanuel Levinas

Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a 21st-century resume, or a 19th-century transcript? ... As the information landscape becomes ever more complex, why does a school district want to abandon its professional guides to it? — Mark Moran

But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day? — Elizabeth Gilbert

The true hallmark of how advanced a person is, is how they treat those around them. Not simply what they say or what they preach, but the results they generate, how kind they are. — Frederick Lenz

I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was that they had known me from the moment I was born. — Jamaica Kincaid

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth! — Jim Elliot