Dirks Fund Quotes

#1. I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

Antonio Banderas

#2. No matter who we are, where we live or our status in life, we would never really be able to escape the demands and supplies of life.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'

Steven Wright

#4. You can eat a Burger for $5 or a Kobe Steak for $100. They both fill you up. The real difference is the experience.

David Dobson

#5. Kerry has already begun his search for a running mate. They say that because John Edwards still has $50 million in campaign money, Kerry might pick him. Pick him? Hey, for $50 million, Kerry will marry him.

Jay Leno

#6. The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain.

Robert Blair

#7. There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Clive Bell

#8. That was indeed to live
at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#9. There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money.

Roderick Townley

#10. The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Frederick Douglass

#11. Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.

George Will

#12. It's all about how bad you want to come back. (The Achilles' is) not tight anymore. I'm like a wild dog about getting back on the field. I'm hungrier than I've ever been.

Takeo Spikes

#13. She was Amy, and she was forever. She was one of Twelve and also the other, the one above and behind, the Zero. She was the Girl from Nowhere, the One Who Walked In, who lived a thousand years; Amy of Multitudes, the Girl with the Souls Inside Her. She was Amy. She was Amy. She was Amy.

Justin Cronin

#14. Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.

Rumi