Scorekeepers Quotes

#1. Because we are self-focused, we tend to be scorekeepers, constantly comparing our piles of stuff to the piles of others. It's a life of discontentment and envy. Envy is always selfish.

Paul David Tripp

#2. I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

Magic Johnson

#3. I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a ... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

Gale Gordon

#4. There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest.

Oscar Wilde

#5. All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!

Louis Simpson

#6. Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

Stephen Breyer

#7. I want to work, so I'm going where the work is.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

#8. Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

Helen Fisher

#9. The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

Sherwood Anderson

#11. The past, boxed up and stacked out of sight. But never too far away

Megan Miranda

#12. Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.

Eric Gurney

#13. I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. It is actually more important to be broken bread and poured-out wine in the area of intercession than in our personal contact with others.

Oswald Chambers