Leo Durocher Quotes
Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
Quotes to Explore
-
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
-
You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
-
From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.
-
My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.
-
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
-
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
-
The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
-
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
-
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
-
To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
-
I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
-
So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
-
India is my motherland.
-
I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.
-
When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
-
I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.
-
I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.
-
Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
-
After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.
-
The smaller players need to consolidate, but it will take time to deliver those synergies to the market
-
Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core. If you do something extraordinary for your customer you will never be forgotten. Customer service heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Time for the FUTURE!!
-
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.
-
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
-
Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
