The Compleat Angler Quotes

#1. The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

Stephen Leacock

#2. Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should not be hindered and weighed down by a mechanical servility to such rules.

Federico Zuccari

#3. I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

Ryan Guzman

#4. Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#5. I found my way into the indie world a bit late in my career, but it was something that I was really passionate about doing.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#6. Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

James Taylor

#7. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before a game; if it worked, every game would be a tie.

Johan Cruyff

#8. Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.

Janet Erskine Stuart

#9. Luxuriate in a constant flow of information, picking out whatever I wanted to know.

Garth Nix

#10. It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

Debbie Harry

#11. For me it provided a kaleidoscopic view of everything that was wrong with me. I could already feel it opening all the windows in my hear, giving me a panoramic view of my flaws

Augusten Burroughs

#12. Name it as you will, claim it as you will, the world does not belong to men. Men belong to the world.

Robin Hobb

#13. [On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

Radclyffe Hall

#14. I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.

Carrie Underwood

#15. Some day, I suppose it's possible for someone to be a better No Limit Hold'em player than me. I doubt it, but it could happen. But, I swear to you, I don't see how anyone could ever play gin better than me.

Stu Ungar