"My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Enemy Quotes #Worms Quotes #Woodchucks Quotes

“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.”
“Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.”
“Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.”
“I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.”
“'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.”
“There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.”
“To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.”
“I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of whatâ€™s been given me. Thatâ€™s what Iâ€™ve been given and thatâ€™s what Iâ€™ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. Itâ€™s just what it is.”

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