Ifill Cup Quotes

#1. This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.

Eddie Condon

#2. Your mind should be in harmony with the functioning of the universe; your body should be in tune with the movement of the universe; body and mind should be bound as one, unified with the activity of the universe.

Morihei Ueshiba

#3. It was good to know that when swords failed, simple girl tactics always worked - even on monsters.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#4. As for the coyote, he was nothing like his cartoon icon. He was sleek, fast, healthy and apparently without an anvil or Acme product of any kind.

Doug Fine

#5. It's so difficult to sustain a fatwa,' said Domenica. 'One has to be so enthusiastic. I'm not sure if I could find the moral energy myself.

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

Seneca.

#7. The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.

Michael Pollan

#8. A student is almost always feeling motivated to practice, if he leaves his lesson feeling capable

Frances Elliott Clark

#9. Finally the pieces started to make sense and I began to feel a pensive awareness of circumstances other than my own; a knowing that brings with it a kind is stillness that I didn't quite understand but accepted it for its own.

Christopher Scotton

#10. America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does ... I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.

Paul Stanley