State Champ Quotes

#1. I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

Apolo Ohno

#2. The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.

Frederick Lenz

#3. He was wearing a T-shirt that said "Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle." He was my candle, but I was not his. I decided I was okay with that.

Sarah Black

#4. The dear Archdeacon is getting so absent-minded. He read a list of box-holders for the opera as the First Lesson the other Sunday, instead of the families and lots of the tribes of Israel that entered Canaan. Fortunately no one noticed the mistake.

Saki

#5. Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

Nancy Pelosi

#6. No gains are ever achieved without first taking the risk of trying.

Norma Gail

#7. There are some days when I think for sure there are so many other stronger Christians than me out there.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#8. I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

John Malkovich

#9. There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals etc ... he who seeks for guidance ... may look inside its covers & find illumination

Herbert Hoover

#10. Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

Baba Hari Dass

#11. A typical male who would find a way to blame his lust on the object of it.

Maggie Shayne

#12. Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. It struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

John Keats

#14. Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it's understood.

Yasmin Mogahed

#15. As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.'

Cliff Burton