Vandersteen Speakers Quotes & Sayings

Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were. — Ricky Jay

But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger. — C.S. Lewis

The [best] coaches ... know that the job is to win ... know that they must be decisive, that they must phase people through their organizations, and at the same time they are sensitive to the feelings, loyalties, and emotions that people have toward one another. If you don't have these feelings, I do not know how you can lead anyone. I have spent many sleepless nights trying to figure out how I was going to phase out certain players for whom I had strong feelings, but that was my job. I wasn't hired to do anything but win. — Bill Walsh

History is the view from the cheap seats. Distance from the action provides a unique perspective; one can recognize the plays and appreciate the totality of certain events. — Debra Komar

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted. — Jessie Matthews

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony. — Susan Sontag

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond. — Jodi Picoult

In God 'tis glory: And when men aspire,
'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire. — John Dryden

What I care the most is what I can do for people. I am not into it for recognition; if it comes it will happen out of my own effort. — Carlos Machado

Teach like your hair's on fire! — Rafe Esquith

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that. — Ice Cube

Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults. — Ruby Bridges