John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
Quotes to Explore
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.
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For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
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If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.
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Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
