Woodenisms Quotes

#1. The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

John Wooden

#2. And the hatred was deep in the eyes of the people, beneath the surface.

John Steinbeck

#3. You don't often see fight scenes with people who have no idea how to fight.

Seth Rogen

#4. My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#5. To the fool-king belongs the world.

Friedrich Schiller

#6. Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

Jean Vanier

#7. If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

Bill Ayers

#8. Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'

Chuck Schumer

#9. George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.

John McPhee

#10. When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.

Fatih Akin

#11. Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

Jimmy Breslin

#12. Gratitude opens our eyes ... We are often praying for something God has already given us.

Steve Maraboli