In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.

Sa'di

Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon.

John Green

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

Andrew Sean Greer

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

Henry Ford

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

Curtis Joseph

I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.'Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said.'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Cassandra Clare

Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!

Taylor Lautner

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

Catherine Booth

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

Orson Scott Card

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain

Life too near paralyses art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Gilbert K. Chesterton