Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Cannon

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

W. Hull

To play in the National Hockey League as a red blooded American kid... a Canadian kid, we all dreamed about it and I made a boyhood dream come true.

Booth Tarkington

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

Cliff Sloan

Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept everything from his boyhood diaries to college correspondence to every scrap of paper that came his way on the Supreme Court.

Walter Dean Myers

Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.

Tammy Loew

I think it is perfectly natural for people to want to take a break.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Tori Amos

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Robert E. Howard

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

Rebecca Solnit

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed, ... It will just naturally be replaced by something else.

William McDonough

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

Richard Courant

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Walter Scott

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

Jonathan Safran Foer

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

Jeff Bezos

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

Brandee Bryant

You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.

Germaine Greer

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.