I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
#quotes #tom-hicks #sports

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #loss

Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
#quotes #trevor-baylis #inspiration #ideas #night

The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
#quotes #michael-j-fox #nature #life #humility

I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
#quotes #richard-rodgers #theater

I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
#quotes #tommy-franks #war

That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
#quotes #kurt-busch #trying

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
#quotes #harvey-fierstein

I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
#quotes #ray-davies #time

He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs

Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
#quotes #prabal-gurung #clothing

I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
#quotes #hope-davis

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
#quotes #george-stigler #sweden

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
#quotes #stephen-rea #people

What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
#quotes #scott-lynch #knives #utensils

The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #fraud

It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
#quotes #jane-austen #laziness #work

When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
#quotes #frederick-lenz #buddhism #kundalini #chakras #shushumna

U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
#quotes #henry-paulson #economy #united-states #china

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
#quotes #joe-scarborough #republicans #democrats #politics

The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
#quotes #michael-light #thinking

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
#quotes #nnamdi-azikiwe #creativity #scholars

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
#quotes #charles-ghigna #inspiration

The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
#quotes #ward-mcallister #eating

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
#quotes #george-mcgovern #united-states