When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions.
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in other...
SAMUEL FOOTE Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd, And mother Eve the humble distaff held, Who then ...
SAMUEL FOOTE Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a grea...
SAMUEL FOOTE He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE The great Panjandrum himself.
SAMUEL FOOTE When house and land are gone and spent,/ Then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions
SAMUEL FOOTE They all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gun powder ran out at the heels of...
SAMUEL FOOTE My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always ca...
HORTON FOOTE Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would nev...
SHELBY FOOTE He's going to be a scary player. He's young, he's learning - and that was a big goal for us.
ADAM FOOTE We showed a lot of character coming back tonight. This team really wants to win and if we can put aw...
ADAM FOOTE Having come back like we did, I think it showed a lot of heart. We played an open game. I think we h...
ADAM FOOTE Having to fight back like we did I think showed a lot of heart. We played an open game tonight and I...
ADAM FOOTE It seemed like they wanted it more.
ADAM FOOTE We should play desperate all the time -- why not? This team is so hard on itself that sometimes we p...
ADAM FOOTE We needed to get a win and get some confidence. We had a long week of practice going over some thing...
ADAM FOOTE We showed a little frustration. We looked a little scrambly on power plays. We didn't play together ...
ADAM FOOTE The first thing he (Callan) asked was, 'Can I bring my Zamboni bed?' I said, 'Sure, you can bring th...
ADAM FOOTE It's OK. We've got a lot of young guys. We'll grow together. We'll see what we can do.
ADAM FOOTE I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. B...
SHELBY FOOTE Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from rea...
SHELBY FOOTE I never cared what kind of grade I got.
SHELBY FOOTE I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.
SHELBY FOOTE I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone els...
SHELBY FOOTE I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask...
HORTON FOOTE If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. La...
SHELBY FOOTE I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both...
SHELBY FOOTE Longevity conquers scandal every time.
SHELBY FOOTE I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typew...
SHELBY FOOTE A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don&...
HORTON FOOTE Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is goin...
SHELBY FOOTE Obviously, this hurts. It?s a huge letdown. For people in Canada, if we?re not there in the final, w...
ADAM FOOTE All these games are kind of a finals. There is no room for errors.
ADAM FOOTE Obviously my first job is being ready for the Blue Jackets, and I knew if I got dinged again with th...
ADAM FOOTE I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
SHELBY FOOTE Somebody was in front and made the defenseman concentrate on someone else, ... I just whacked at it ...
ADAM FOOTE When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregati...
SHELBY FOOTE I'm from Detroit, but I haven't had the great career that he has. He deserves all of the applause an...
LARRY FOOTE A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
SHELBY FOOTE It was closer than the score indicated and we just wanted to make sure that we didn't let anyone beh...
ADAM FOOTE If everything in my life is going smoothly, then obviously I know I'm doing something wrong. Life wa...
AMANDA FOOTE We were frustrated at each other. We started cussing at each other. And when we lined up we took our...
LARRY FOOTE I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spir...
HORTON FOOTE I was the ultimate bachelor. I was a young guy, so I did what I wanted to do. Now my day revolves ar...
LARRY FOOTE Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
SHELBY FOOTE And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thin...
SHELBY FOOTE I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now...
HORTON FOOTE This defense could be one of the best you've seen. For a long time.
LARRY FOOTE I want to get better, that's first and foremost. Mr. Rooney and the organization paid me so I gotta ...
LARRY FOOTE The guys always remind me of that. I wasn't ready. I think it was more physical but that was a long ...
LARRY FOOTE Through high school, college I've always been known as a heady football player. (At Michigan) we ran...
LARRY FOOTE I've always been smart but you know how it is just doing enough to be in the middle of the pack. But...
LARRY FOOTE They might not think that this guy is very intelligent.
LARRY FOOTE It's true. They do have a lot of new guys. But they still have Steve McNair. With Steve McNair, they...
LARRY FOOTE Trash talk? Oh yeah, I can handle my own. I come from Detroit. That's all we do. I can talk with the...
LARRY FOOTE Anytime Joey Porter comes back on any defense, it's going to be a positive. He's one of our leaders ...
LARRY FOOTE Before he met me, he didn't have any tattoos.
LARRY FOOTE It wasn't big things, just little things. Some nights it was missed free throws, some not getting ke...
DOUG FOOTE But I have no complaints. The kids battled. They played hard. How many times does a team with only f...
DOUG FOOTE We lost the game because we lost our focus on defense at critical times and turned it over on offens...
DOUG FOOTE It'll be a real test of character.
DOUG FOOTE When you don't have a lot of low-post scoring, you've got to hit some shots (elsewhere), particularl...
DOUG FOOTE We changed our offense a little. It's a motion offense. It's penetration and pitch that we implement...
DOUG FOOTE Our biggest problem when you look at this team is 15 out of 19 kids are freshmen and sophomores. We ...
DOUG FOOTE We've got to make some free throws. We've shot ourselves in the foot time and time again at the foul...
DOUG FOOTE Grove City is very structured. They run a 2-1-2 set offense. They pass, pass, and pass.
DOUG FOOTE We've played a brutal schedule and we've played seven of nine games on the road, so getting some hom...
DOUG FOOTE My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second print...
SHELBY FOOTE And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 2...
SHELBY FOOTE I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incident...
SHELBY FOOTE I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a...
SHELBY FOOTE I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third v...
SHELBY FOOTE But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every n...
SHELBY FOOTE I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be qui...
SHELBY FOOTE Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
SHELBY FOOTE I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wo...
HORTON FOOTE I haven't seen him drop one. Not one.
LARRY FOOTE You have to go up there and just battle. I found some holes today and managed to get a couple hits. ...
MATT FOOTE I just tried to come out and have some fun today. Obviously these guys are pretty good competition a...
MATT FOOTE One through nine, we don't have a guy in the lineup that is an easy out.
MATT FOOTE I tried to treat it like a regular game, and not stress too much about competition or the fact that ...
MATT FOOTE On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to c...
SHELBY FOOTE Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come m...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardsh...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when ...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It ...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
GEORGE W. FOOTE I never liked you, and I always will.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these ...
SAMUEL PEPYS Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
SAMUEL PEPYS Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...
SAMUEL PEPYS Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
SAMUEL PEPYS My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. M...
SAMUEL MORSE What God hath wrought?
SAMUEL MORSE My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. T...
SAMUEL LOVER Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
SAMUEL LOVER To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former j...
SAMUEL LOVER How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might,...
SAMUEL LOVER Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
SAMUEL LOVER When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. ...
SAMUEL LOVER Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
SAMUEL LOVER What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which ...
SAMUEL LOVER I'm not a very typical singer.
SAMUEL LARSEN I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
SAMUEL LARSEN The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're ju...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
SAMUEL LARSEN There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achiev...
SAMUEL LARSEN I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the...
SAMUEL LARSEN I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously bef...
SAMUEL LARSEN You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with ...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
SAMUEL LARSEN I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we'...
SAMUEL LARSEN Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
SAMUEL LARSEN On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense her...
SAMUEL LARSEN The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I r...
SAMUEL LARSEN One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
SAMUEL LARSEN Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play ...
SAMUEL LARSEN Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
SAMUEL LARSEN There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
SAMUEL LARSEN The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
SAMUEL LARSEN I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV...
SAMUEL LARSEN He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
SAMUEL HOPKINS These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, ...
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a w...
SAMUEL GOMPERS It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice a...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liber...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. S...
SAMUEL DASH I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I migh...
SAMUEL DASH I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
SAMUEL DASH One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if ...
SAMUEL DASH While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wan...
SAMUEL DASH I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in ...
SAMUEL BECKETT All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...
SAMUEL BECKETT No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...
SAMUEL BECKETT Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETT Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on...
SAMUEL BECKETT