When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and… — Don Murray Copy Share Image
The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume… — Dale Dauten Copy Share Image
There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth.… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now… — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as… — James Franco Copy Share Image
But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest.… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure.… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I'm the Big Cactus now… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along… — George Eiferman Copy Share Image
I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is… — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
That could be the issue that the party - that the party faces as we get ready to potentially nominate someone who's… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
In the contest between talent and hard work as to which is the more important element of success, there's no comparison. A… — David Joyner Copy Share Image
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
The music teacher thought I sang like a goat. It was kind of devastating. A few months after that, I participated in… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who… — Cus D'Amato Copy Share Image
The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
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