Famous Quotes Name T

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us I know you will cry with me, NEVER NEVER.

The art of being bored is lost.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Be bold and the mighty will follow.

The only thing dumber than a pitcher is two pitchers.

Pour water on a sportswriter -- instant horseshit.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

The inside half of the plate. That's where history's made.

succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee.

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Security is a kind of death.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question.

Make voyages - Attempt them - there's nothing else...

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Security is a kind of death.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

I am who I am, You are who you are, So, be who you are, not what you are.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

What is done let us leave alone.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

While there's life, there's hope.