Jerry West Quotes

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

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• What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Everything
  • Himself

• Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Always
  • Marriage
  • Issue

• I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Book
  • Think

• The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Popular

• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Become
  • Poison

• Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Coffee

• 'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • American
  • Man
  • Me

• When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Children
  • Start
  • Same

• I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • World
  • Believe
  • Writing

• It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Time
  • Power
  • America

• We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Short
  • Victim

• I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Fool

• You should continue carrying your arms, ready to sacrifice your lives in defence against these belligerent attacks

  

  Ali Abdullah Saleh
  • Sacrifice

• And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another. Macedonians. Sassanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Up
  • Country
  • Friends

• She's the ornament of her sex.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • She
  • Sex

• I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

  

  Chris Isaak

• I am thrilled to see my genome.

  

  James D. Watson

• If I couldn't get to the national team, I wanted to get as much as I could out of soccer, and I think moving abroad was my opportunity to do that. I think that, in turn, playing with that freedom and that spirit allowed me to play a lot better. I escalated my game quickly just by being happy.

  

  Christen Press
  • Happy
  • Game
  • Freedom

• But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • Art
  • Energy

• Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Training
  • Preparation

• I used to play videogames, but I don't have too much time anymore. I used to have 3DO, but I could never find any games, really. I used to play it all the time. Games like 'Road Rash.'

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Time
  • Road

• I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Work
  • Blonde

• Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

  

  Jerry West