Coach John Robinson Quotes

#1. Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

John Ray

#2. Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world ...

Bonnie Friedman

#3. Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Daniel Webster

#4. Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

Mark Twain

#5. There is no other way of guarding against adulation, than to make people understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. On the other hand, when everyone feels at liberty to tell you the truth, they will be apt to be lacking in respect to you.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#6. None can save us, accept the Saviour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me - yet - the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

Margaret Atwood

#8. That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

Pam Grier

#9. True love has her own language.

Debasish Mridha

#10. They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

Lauren Oliver

#11. I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.

Jane Smiley

#12. When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

Lev Grossman

#13. Then again, I have Cyclopes and two-tailed mermen as siblings. I wasn't about to comment on the Kane kids' lack of resemblance.

Rick Riordan