Joe Paterno Quotes

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

Joe Paterno

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• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

  Karen Bender
  • People
  • Thought
  • Weird

• Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Attention
  • College

• I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Love
  • Team
  • Change

• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Change
  • Yourself

• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Sock

• You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself. Suddenly, you have investors to satisfy. Investors who want - who demand - a return.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Mind
  • Want
  • End

• The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty
  • Idea

• People like to see showdowns.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Like
  • See

• Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Like

• The first years of man must make provision for the last.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Great
  • Community
  • Rest

• You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  • Wisdom

• I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Great
  • American
  • Poetry

• When I was young, I wanted to be the face of a makeup campaign or a hair campaign, so that's something that I've always dreamed of that hopefully comes along. And then obviously starring with Ryan Gosling in a movie wouldn't be so bad, either.

  

  Emeraude Toubia
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Hair

• I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Unique

• Getting to work with Edie Falco and watching her be a quiet presence - but a very powerful presence - and so brilliant and free? That was the first person I saw where I was like, 'I want to emulate that.'

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Work
  • Free
  • Powerful

• There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Problem
  • Firsts
  • Other Worlds

• I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Sin

• The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Dog

• Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Paper

• The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

  

  William Hague
  • Powerful
  • Building
  • Competitiveness

• Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

  

  Joe Paterno