"The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled."

-- Bill Toomey

#Athlete Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.”
“I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference, and also maybe some of those who sent us astray. There are those are the teachers who are brave enough to buck the system, and obviously not in such a way that jeopardizes their jobs, but brave enough to say, "I know I have to accomplish that, but I want to know how I'm going to help this child get there differently. I want to know what makes this child tick, and I want to help him get there from a place of curiosity, rather than from a place where I impose my ideas on him."”

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“I'm not a vagrant. I'm a hobo. Big difference.”
“Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.”
“Poetry is an orphan of silence.”
“When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.”
“Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.”
“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.”

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