A boy at summer band practice tells you that pads are just…

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

— Dwight Schultz

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost…

— Henry David Thoreau

The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the…

— Betty Smith

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad.…

— Danny Huston

People say be safe and I hate that, so I go to Skate Lab with no pads

— Jaden Smith

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen,…

— Paul McCartney

I still wear minis and cardigans, but I think I'll steer away from shoulder pads.

— Susanna Hoffs

Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways…

— Pema Chodron

I don't have to pad my resume. Normal people are astounded by my resume, because normal people never let their dreams get beyond their…

— John Layfield

Football: War with cleats and pads.

— Mike Gallagher

For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it…

— Lemon Andersen

It all changes when we get the pads on. That's when we see who's tough, who can take a hit, who can still be…

— Brandin Cooks

Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns…

— Gregory Maguire

'Lost Boys' is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called…

— Lena Headey

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer