Hugh Mercer Quotes

#1. Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

Bear Bryant

#2. Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#3. Bullshit. You can paint with a fork, you can kill with a fork. A fork is a tool. Don't let yourself be confined by the definitions of others.

Brian Fatah Steele

#4. Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#5. You can believe what you've been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something with any real degree of understanding until you've personally walked the road yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind ...

W.G. Sebald

#7. Famous doesn't mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn't mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better.

Melissa McCarthy

#8. A few dozen kids sprawled in the seats in front of him, listening to iPods, talking, or sleeping.

Rick Riordan

#9. Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

John Vane

#10. You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

Rick Warren

#11. She saw now that he was like an illusionist who captivated women with a little sleight of hand and once she had seen the mechanism it had lost all power for her.

Anna Godbersen

#12. You could accomplish some truly heinous things once emotion has been tucked away. Anger

T.A. White

#13. In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

Nicola Sturgeon