V Rtes T Rk P Quotes & Sayings

People think that I play effortlessly. I remember doing a record date with Bill Evans and afterwards he said to me, you make it sound so easy but when I get right up next to you you're working hard and making it sound easy! — Stan Getz

If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all. — Edward Kennedy

When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees. — Joe Torre

I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3. — J. D. Souther

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance. — Al Gore

Just use the same quotes. It's the same story. — Bryan Murray

Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear. — Bill W.

To think at all requires a purpose, no matter how vague. The best thinking, however, requires a definite purpose, and the more definite this purpose the more definite will be our thinking. Therefore in taking up any special line of thought, we must first find just what our end or purpose is, and thus get clearly in mind what our problems are. — Henry Hazlitt

Politics is merely war by other means.
-an old Andorian saying — David Mack

Since ... since when?" I finally managed to ask.
"Since ... forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious. — Richelle Mead

I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically. — Misty May-Treanor

Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. — Adrian McKinty

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. — Norman Ralph Augustine

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself. — Ian Thorpe