Mark Messier Quotes

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

Mark Messier

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• How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Man
  • You
  • How

• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • Value
  • Yourself

• Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Death
  • End

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Relationship
  • Person
  • Jealous

• A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

  

  Otto Bauer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Community

• I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Racing
  • Cars
  • Adrenaline

• Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Earth
  • New York
  • Kid

• In university, in a vain attempt to stave off the frosh fifteen, I used to melt fat-free cheese over broccoli, onions and cauliflower in the cafeteria microwave. That earned me few friends.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Friends
  • Free
  • Me

• I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Cold
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Job
  • Treasure
  • Skilled

• They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • See

• But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that 'this is red.'

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Red
  • Blue

• The linguistic entity is not accurately defined until it is delimited, i.e. separated from everything that surrounds it on the phonic chain. These delimited entities or units stand in opposition to each other in the mechanism of language.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• Turpe quidem dictu, sed, si modo vera fatemur,vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.

  

  Ovid

• Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Hope
  • Father

• Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Destiny
  • Missing
  • Direct

• When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Family
  • Friend
  • Proud

• I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • Life

• In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • Done
  • Christian

• I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.

  

  Jose Gonzalez
  • People
  • Leaving
  • Drunk

• The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

  

  Mark Messier