Bully Melvin Quotes

#1. Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

Susan Sontag

#2. Most of us can be counted on to manage our own undoings.

Michael Cunningham

#3. He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

Chanakya

#4. The implication is that we feel emotions (limbic brain) then find an explanation (neocortex). As

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different.

Holly Black

#6. There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

Saint Augustine

#7. Pleased as punch. That's an odd-sounding turn of phrase, isn't it? How can a punch be pleased? It's punch. Rum and lemons and such. And if it's the other sort of punch they mean, a punch in the face- well that doesn't sound very pleasing at all, does it?

Gail Dayton

#8. Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It follows that regular physical conditioning should be part of your overall chess training.

Pal Benko

#9. The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

Eleanor Farjeon

#10. This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.

Lauren Oliver

#11. Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

Richard Sherman

#13. I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.

Sloane Stephens

#14. It was a country ... that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

Wendell Berry

#15. When they ask you where you're from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you were not born but crawled, headfirst - into the hunger of dogs. My son, tell them the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting.

Ocean Vuong