“Every Hun has value – even if only to serve as a bad example.”
Wess Roberts, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
“I remember when Jack Smith, putting together a story on me, read me a quote from Jack London: ‘I would rather be a meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.’ ‘What does that mean to you?’ Jack Smith asked. I thought for a long moment, and then I said, ‘Throw deep.’”
Kenny Stabler Snake
“What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.”
Bertold Brecht, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
“Liquid sunshine”
What his mother always called pouring rain, according to Bill Clinton while presiding over the dedication of his presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas in a downpour, quoted in Maclean’s November 29, 2004
“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.”
Confederate General Richard Ewell quoted in James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War & Reconstruction
“A true friend is someone who likes you despite your achievements.”
Arnold Bennett, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com