Ghost Dog Forest Whitaker Quotes

#1. Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.

Jerry Tarkanian

#2. I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare.

Holly Lisle

#3. What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be.

Anita Moorjani

#4. As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

Baron De Montesquieu

#5. On your worst days do not look in the mirror and call yourself pretty. Call yourself trying, call yourself surviving, call yourself learning how to get through a day, a week, a month or year. Call yourself still learning.

Meggie Royer

#6. What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

Douglas Coupland

#7. You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

Pia Zadora

#8. Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.

Sun Tzu

#9. I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.

Walter J. Phillips

#10. I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like saying I'm a recording device, I start and I go. I had a real connection to ongoing, language production in real time.

Constance Dejong

#11. Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

Cyril Connolly

#12. The realisation that Stevey is dead returns to me in flashes, like a rotten tooth it suddenly strikes a nerve and throbs inside me.

HISTORIES OF THE DEAD

Math Bird