Occluding Ear Quotes

#1. If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

Kurt Warner

#2. For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope ( ... )Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that I was involved in the fundamentals of life.

Steve McCurry

#3. Prove to me that you deserved it.

Kristine Cuevas

#4. No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Iris Murdoch

#5. When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me.

John Varvatos

#6. I want babies too," he said huskily. "Daughters as beautiful as you are.

Maya Banks

#7. He who runs from a challenge runs from an opportunity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

J. Oswald Sanders

#9. Anything I've asked of MGM Grand, they've done for me in a heartbeat. They're all about making entertainers and athletes happy.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#10. One Thousand And One Days, or How Not to Be a Sucker

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. So often what is really nothing short of a power grab is cast in the lofty language of 'progress.

Charles C.W. Cooke

#12. I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.

Tod Machover

#13. If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

Patrick Wilson

#14. If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#15. When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

Pat Conroy