Palooka Quotes

#1. I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

Billy Wilder

#2. So much darkness, everything everywhere around and inside him, it all held so much darkness. Not her, he thought. Mimi blinds the darkness. (Palooka)

Kristin Caraway

#3. My dad came over to the house ... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children ... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

Bill Cosby

#4. And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.

Sri Chinmoy

#5. There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

John Gardner

#6. The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

Saadi

#7. The soothsayer shrugged, flustering her bat. "Some details are above your feygrade.

Kresley Cole

#8. I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

Herbie Hancock

#9. Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

Chris Lowe

#10. I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.

Agatha Christie

#11. Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

Laozi

#12. An ounce of wisdom is better than a pound of talent.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I'm sort of crazy baffoon who can't make up his mind what to do in life

George Plimpton

#14. It's not that hard, Jade. You just sway side to side while a hot guy holds you in his arms." "So we're not even dancing together?" I tease.

Allie Everhart