D. B. Sweeney Quotes

If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

D. B. Sweeney

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• I ended the war a horse ahead.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
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  • Ahead

• The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Internet
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• Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Death
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• The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Mind
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• There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.

  

  Fetty Wap
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  • Like
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• The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Couple
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• I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Time
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  • Age

• Shun all vice, especially card playing.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Playing
  • Vice
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• I have no literary fears.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Fears
  • Literary

• Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Simple

• I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Up
  • Want
  • Comedy

• 'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • March

• Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

  

  Maurice Jarre

• I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Music
  • School
  • Experience

• When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Time
  • Men

• I got stopped in front of the bras in Victoria's Secret; I get interrogated in airport bathrooms. I went to South Africa in January to see my family, and even there people would stop me and ask, "Sasha, who's A?" Even my grandma.

  

  Sasha Pieterse
  • People
  • Secret
  • Grandma

• Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Hand
  • Iron
  • Velvet

• Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.

  

  Evalyn Walsh McLean
  • Children
  • Money
  • Energy

• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Object
  • Soft

• You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Problem

• If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Electricity
  • Velvet
  • Gretzky