Bobby Hoying Quotes
I'm really happy for Coach Cooper and the guys who've been around here for six or seven years, especially our seniors.
Quotes to Explore
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
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I find Hollywood really toxic.
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With President Obama, we will move America forward.
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I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
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'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
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As Duke Ellington once said, 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton.' ... About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business - well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck.
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Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.
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By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.
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I have this old-man character named Glary Oldman. His apartment was on fire, but he was stubborn about leaving because he didn't want to leave all his stuff. I have a character called Berle, who lost 19 pounds, and now he's 600 pounds and very happy about it.
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I truly believe that when you're funny, you're blessed. Your whole life is kind of golden. I was happy, although it was not perfect happiness. There was illness and sadness and death.
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I'm really happy for Coach Cooper and the guys who've been around here for six or seven years, especially our seniors.
