Watermelon Seed Quotes

#1. Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

Ty Cobb

#2. I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

Larry Page

#3. The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

Trevor Nunn

#4. Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.

Shannon Hale

#5. To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong
or else a coward. I'm neither.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. Writing brings scant relief. It retraces, it delimits. It lends a touch of coherence, the idea of a kind of realism. One stumbles around in a cruel fog, but there is the odd pointer. Chaos is no more than a few feet away. A meagre victory, in truth.

Michel Houellebecq

#7. Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.

James Shikwati

#8. His eyes opened and he smiled at me like he understood everything, like I was everything.

Shelly Crane

#9. The press doesn't like me, because I am a weirdo to them, so they do everything to create their own fictional Kola Boof.

Kola Boof

#10. Love was something that did much to change a person. It brought joy as it brought suffering, and in turn brought about those moments that defined one's character.

Renee Ahdieh

#11. At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.

J.D. Greear

#12. Now I say that I know the meaning of my life:"To live for God, for my soul." And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such, indeed, is the meaning of everything existing.(12-7)

Leo Tolstoy

#13. Nowadays we are forced with so many things in life in society that all of the sudden we are no longer in tune with our soul, and if you can find a channel to that soul, its dark, and you've got to be able to look at it, with joy, because you're willing to look at it.

Jean-Marc Barr

#14. And so the Universe ended.

Douglas Adams

#15. I grew up in Arizona. I love it. I'm a part of the desert. I feel like, really, I'm from the Sonoran Desert, which is - extends to both sides of the border. I'm really from that part of Mexico, also. And I hate that there's a fence, you know, running through it.

Linda Ronstadt