Cloisters On The Platte Quotes

#1. People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench.

John Wooden

#2. I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

Mac DeMarco

#3. My hair is naturally blonde... Just for the record. ~ Jace

Cassandra Clare

#4. Kaz tossed the ledger back in the safe. "You're not weak because you can't read. You're weak because you're afraid of people seeing your weakness. You're letting shame decide who you are..." (p283)

Leigh Bardugo

#5. Life is not a matter for simple optimism
for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism
for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.

Rollo May

#6. As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

Levon Aronian

#7. Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you've got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

Deb Caletti

#8. When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Samuel Butler

#9. You don't see how beautiful you are because you're too busy hiding to avoid more pain.

Harper Sloan

#10. If they're not going to respect you, then they best damn well fear you.

Carroll Bryant

#11. Appurv Gupta brings you a unique point of view that no other comedian in India does. Well worth a watch.

Papa CJ