#me

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

#faith #great #great things #ideas #industrial

The state of mind of a fighter is so important. I don't like to see a fighter stay locked up in a room. Sometimes it works against them. They think and they worry. They dwell, sitting in that dark room. You come back and they're psyched out. I like to see boxers eat and then walk, mingle with people. You have to have a certain amount of movement. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#also #being #being alone #big #corn

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment. ↗

— Bob Feller

#equipment #hair #more #nowadays #packing

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#graveyards #indispensable #men

People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#come #cry #human #laugh #only

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety. ↗

— Bil Keane

#catholic #drawing #events #found #got

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#called #freaks #garland #got #her

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#alive #did #done #fits #i

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#commercial #depress #equal #equal rights #every