Toughness Jay Bilas Quotes

#1. Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.

Jay Bilas

#2. What makes American Elf so good is that it's incredibly personal and it runs the full spectrum from super-sickening sweetness to gut-wrenching terror and sorrow. It's a funny and powerful window into a real person's mind.

Tony Millionaire

#3. Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.

Maureen F. McHugh

#4. From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

Gautama Buddha

#5. I will ask you once to put the dark-skinned girl down and leave."
Crandle snorted. "And if we don't?"
That one eye narrowed slightly. "Then, long after we are gone to the goddess, the grandchildren of the grandchildren of those who witness will whisper fearful stories of the way I broke you.

Joe Abercrombie

#6. Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

Terry Southern

#7. When things are at their worst,
there are no tears.

Seneca.

#8. I only grow hair in places that men like.

Lea Thompson

#9. Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It's fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.

Markus Zusak

#10. Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength or athleticism. Toughness is A SKILL that can be developed & improved.

Jay Bilas