quotes about players
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~From a Washington Post word contest
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~Evelyn Waugh
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ~George Bernard Shaw
A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. ~Sophie Tunnell
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Invent a past for the present. ~Daniel Stern
We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand
Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it. ~Doc Sane
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. ~Lisa Alther
If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same. ~Bob Golic
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1964
Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life. ~Sigmund Freud
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
The more I practice, the luckier I get. ~Jerry Barber, about golf
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story. ~Linda Hogan
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~Dorothy Nevill
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com