Ernest K. Gann Quotes
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.
Ernest K. Gann
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
Sam Snead
The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
Questlove
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
Walton Goggins
I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
Taylor Momsen
Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
Ian Mckellen
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
E. Stanley Jones
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.
Roger McGuinn
The Byrds
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
Corrie Ten Boom
Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.
Richard Roeper
But I didn't know what I could or couldn't do with it. It sat there for 60 years without a plan to start with. I could have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring it all up to code, but that didn't make a lot of sense.
J. M. Roberts
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.
Ernest K. Gann