Velnias Quotes & Sayings

To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it. — Steve Bunce

I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action. — Agatha Christie

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. — Lyndon B. Johnson

One must say; be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut. — M.F. Moonzajer

It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with. — Joe Lando

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt. — Jeannette Walls

Girls "going wild" aren't damaging a generation of women, the myth of sexual purity is. The lie of virginity - the idea that such a thing even exists - is ensuring that young women's perception of themselves is inextricable from their bodies, and that their ability to be moral actors is absolutely dependent on their sexuality. It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people , not on whether or not they're sexually active ... so while young women are subject to overt sexual messages everyday, they're simultaneously being taught - by the people who are supposed to care for their personal and moral development, no less - that their only real worth is their virginity and ability to remain "pure". — Jessica Valenti

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike ... dances with wildlife. — Mike Birbiglia

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time. — Jamie Cullum

I believe it's true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event. — Ralph Metzner

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing. — Helen Keller

The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation ... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people. — J. Edgar Hoover