43 quotes found
“Perhaps it is only when we realize and celebrate the intrinsic value of every human life that celebrity - true celebrity - shines most brightly. On our deathbeds, none of us will speak of the jobs ...”
“If you want to be a genius, it's easy: All you gotta say is, 'Everything stinks.' Then, you're never wrong.”
“A wisdom as constant as the North Star shines within all of us. It is always present. waiting to be tapped, waiting to guide us, to advise us. We need only use it to prevent its atrophy. No matter ...”
“Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.”
“The crowd makes the ballgame.”
“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.”
“Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.”
“It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.”
“I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.”
“Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It would have shown the white birches pale and shivering in a sudden ague,...”
“I've just learned about his illness let's hope it's nothing trivial.”
“Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.”
“It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.”
“A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.”
“If a woman likes another woman she's cordial. If she doesn't like her she's very cordial.”
“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”
“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”
“My grandmother’s unkindness, for instance, was the result of repressed grief over three deaths: her parents, before she was twelve, and her firstborn child. I don’t recall ever seeing her smile. Sh...”
“If you want to be a genius, it's easy: All you gotta say is, "Everything stinks." Then, you're never wrong. That's how much of a genius I am! That's how I got to where I am today!”
