J. Frank Dobie Quotes
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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You don't see many Jon Jones's.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!
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Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.
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Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
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If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail
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All you have to do is say Fuck Off when the vagina doctor calls.
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.
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A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.
