Reportable Events Quotes

#1. Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.

E.B. White

#2. My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

Meg Ryan

#3. Certainly as a kid, I grew up with Batman, Superman, whoever - they didn't need to be black for me to relate to them. But when a character like Cyborg came along, I got excited, because he looked a little bit more like me; his experiences were a little bit more like mine.

John Ridley

#4. Because I love football and I love the footballers.

Sepp Blatter

#5. In five hundred years' time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not exist. There will be plenty of other causes. You and me and poor Jones will not even figure in a footnote. It will be all economics, politics, battles.

Graham Greene

#6. Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

Joe Jonas

#7. The root of the word "integrity" is "integer." It's a math term - and it refers to whole numbers. The word itself implies "wholeness." These are the questions we must ask ourselves frequently. "Am I whole?" "Are there parts of my character that are lacking?

Josh Hatcher

#8. Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Wilkie Collins

#10. A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky

#11. All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be. - William James

Charles Duhigg

#12. A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that's what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed.

Samuel G. Freedman