Lew Alcindor Quotes

#1. It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.

Elias Canetti

#2. The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.

John Green

#3. I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

James Thayer

#4. It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms.

Truman Capote

#5. They may have covered their lips with silk, but their words were unseathed daggers.

Roshani Chokshi

#6. Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.

Charles Mackay

#7. Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Rudyard Kipling

#8. Paris, viewed from the towers of Notre Dame in the cool dawn of a summer morning, is a delectable and a magnificent sight; and the Paris of that period must have been eminently so.

Victor Hugo

#9. Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

Bill Fitch

#10. I am tracing the knobs of your spine like the map of my favorite continent. You are all the places that I haven't visited yet and I mark each one off with my teeth.

Amanda Oaks