Ursicinus Quotes & Sayings

The enemy of idealism is zealotry. — Neil Kinnock

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything. — Harry Browne

Sis took Eva to the public library and showed her how to get a card. Every week, Eva read her way through the works of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, Henry James and Elizabeth Gaskell. She dreamed of heroines from modest backgrounds attracting unprecedented attentions, soaring tales of love across social divides and sudden unexpected reversals of fortunes. In these pages, anything was possible, even for a girl like her. — Kathleen Tessaro

I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it. — Pat Roberts

Animals are inspirational. They don't know how to lie. They are natural forces. — Charles Bukowski

You only have one life, but if you live it well, that's enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy? — Isabel Allende

There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present. — Justin Cronin

I looked. George Shearing. And as always he leaned his blind head on his pale hand, all ears opened like the ears of an elephant, listening to the American sounds and mastering them for his own English summer's-night use. Then they urged him to get up and play. He did. He played innumerable choruses with amazing chords that mounted higher and higher till the sweat splashed all over the piano and everybody listened in awe and fright. They led him off the stand after an hour. He went back to his dark corner, old God Shearing, and the boys said, 'There ain't nothin left after that. — Jack Kerouac

I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a third of it, but I think I'm getting to a section that may be beyond my skill level. — Charlie Day

The spring sea rising and falling, rising and falling all day. — Yosa Buson

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling. — P. J. O'Rourke