#win

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award. ↗

— Seth Graham-Smith

#big #book #going #guy #i

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.' ↗

— Tom Hanks

#doing #edgy #everyone #i #interested

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#knowledge #mankind #sail #thought #vessel

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#books #discover #foot #how #laughter

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times. ↗

— Levon Helm

#bands #conway #couple #did #good

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ↗

— Heraclitus

#ever #flowing #into #other #rivers

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. ↗

— Hesiod

#bad #bad one #better #good #good wife

See, winners embrace hard work. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#hard #hard work #see #winners #work

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#brains #case #clocks #closes #gives