Bill Sharman Quotes

#1. One simply goes around doing egoism and then ultimately he ends up on the wood of the funeral pyre; such is the pitiful state. And if one is a very good person, he will be cremated with sandalwood. But it is all wood in the end. The true victor is the one who never dies.

Dada Bhagwan

#2. Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.

William R. Bradford

#3. Did you have a ship?" Maya asks. "Yes. It had books on it, and it really was more of a research vessel. We studied a lot." "You're ruining this story." "It's a fact, Maya. There are murdering kinds of pirates and researching kinds of pirates, and your daddy was the latter.

Gabrielle Zevin

#4. Death rock me asleep.

William Shakespeare

#5. You always want to read something that everybody says has gone too far, don't you? That's supposed to not just be charting our decline, but embodying it?

Stephen Graham Jones

#6. It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.

Bill Sharman

#7. When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

Brian Williams

#8. I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write a book or novella for them. Things change. A rejection slip today might mean a frantic call to your agent in six months.

MaryJanice Davidson

#9. I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

Maurice Sendak

#10. My attitude is born out of necessity. I've made mistakes. I've made decisions I regretted. I know what it's like to live with regret. I live with it everyday. But if I let it take over, I'd never get out of bed in the morning.

Maya Banks

#11. Tomorrow never really comes, so todays performance is what really counts.

Bill Sharman

#12. Pride leaves no room for grace.

Charles R. Swindoll

#13. Her thoughts, loosen by solitude, often burst these days through her unconscious lips; and often contradict one another ( ... )

Salman Rushdie

#14. My shadow is only half of what it should be."
"Everyone has their shortcomings.

Haruki Murakami

#15. Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

Guy Finley

#16. The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

Robert M. Pirsig