#eight

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#about #across #dealing #desk #eighteen

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#begin #beset #choice #his #least

Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it's not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn't going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It's not about that. It's about training right. ↗

— Mark Sanchez

#be strong #because #bench #comeback #day

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#been #before #born #child #delivered

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. ↗

— George Saunders

#conduit #damaged #even #get #heightened

Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point I may feel the need to run for office again. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#barack #barack obama #blood #bush #eight

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#education #freight #gone #man #may

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#citizen #first #good #good citizen #his

I'd already put on a bit of weight before I got pregnant. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#before #bit #got #i #pregnant

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#difficulties #eighty #fear #great #great number