Curt Simmons Famous Quotes
Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.
Curt Simmons Quotations
"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night."
Marilyn vos Savant
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
Ring Lardner
"If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
Robert Southey
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone That way, he learns that 'wishing' isn't going to save our national forests."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
Robert Lynd
People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.
Mark Duffy
"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
Sir Arthur Eddington
Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
Arnold Glasgow
"The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature."
William Sherman Pene du Bois