Message of the Day Quotes Part III
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“Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.” –Epicurus
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“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY & they meet at the bar.”
Drew Carey
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“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
Arthur C. Clarke
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“Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.”
Salvador Dali
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“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(this one freaked me out a little - whenever i wake up in the night with bad dreams or whatever, it’s ALWAYS 3:00 am)
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“You can’t write a good song about a whorehouse unless you’ve been in one.”
Woody Guthrie
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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
Bill Walton
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What is a soul? It’s like electricity - we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.
Ray Charles
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
B. Franklin
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“Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.”
- Albert Szent-Gyvrgyi, Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
…Nah, it ain’t that tough Ben.
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Football is a expensive, ritualized way to give college students brain damage.
–jaybate 1.0
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You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can fool all of the KU football fans all of the time.
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Football was created to rid society of the threat of large, aggressive and intelligent males.
–jaybate 1.0
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American politics lack broadly distributed corruption.
–jaybate 1.0
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KU football is a religion. Fans believe it can be saved, despite all proof to the contrary.
–jaybate
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@jaybate-1.0 If you can fool all the KU football fans all of the time, wouldn’t Memorial Stadium always be full?
No malice.
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There is nothing ailing America that some fairness couldn’t cure.
–jaybate 1.0
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Fracking def. extracting gas from coal by polluting aquifers.
–jaybate 1.0
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Why do lone gunmen only successfully assassinate leaders redistributing wealth downward?
–jaybate 1.0
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@jaybate-1.0 Being the highly intuitive being that I am, I sense that there’s a sad story waiting to be written about why you are not the world’s biggest football fan. I’d be interested to hear it sometime if you’re up to talking about it…
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@approxinfinity Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. Patton
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@approxinfinity I hate to hear ‘Less is more.’ It’s a crock of crap.
R. Lee Ermey
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
Zig Ziglar
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@approxinfinity People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
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@approxinfinity Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
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@globaljaybird I don’t know man - you coming up with all these awesome quotes is kinda making me feel inferior…lol
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“Sunk costs in often unnecessary enterprises that keep a half percent of humanity rich make the world go round…a circling drain.”
—jaybate 1.0
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"Football is a head injury in a helmet happening to every player on every play, so that money can be made and autumn enjoyed at a tailgate.”
—jaybate 1.0
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“The mid range game is for suckers.”
—jaybate 1.0
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“Ask not what your rim protector can do for you. Ask what you can do for your rim protector.”
—jaybate 1.0
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@nuleafjhawk No matter who leaf; Zig is one of my all time favs because he is a very devout & outspoken Christian. Sorry for the typo. Hush now, we gotta keep the lid tight to be PC!! Keep the Faith !!
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"I know a Man Who Can."
This has been my stomping ground during this year’s off season.
Enjoy.
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@globaljaybird Great story. As far as the actual song, I don’t normally go for that type of music, but I can honestly say that I really, really enjoyed that song. I’ve noticed that pretty much anything that is truthful and beautiful is worth the time!
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@approxinfinity Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Milan Kundera
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@approxinfinity Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they’re able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they’re praised.
Roger Ebert
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" You think I’ll have a hard time finding tickets for the KU vs Texas game? "
my stupid brother in law
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@approxinfinity When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.
Robert Crais
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@nuleafjhawk “Phil, I wanna pick your brain” My stupid brother in law.
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“An ounce of immunity is worth a pound of prevention and a ton of cure.”
–jaybate 1.0
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“Zone defense and Bill Self are like John Boehner and Barack Obama. Even when you see them together, they are not really acknowledging the legitimacy of the other.”
–jaybate 1.0
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“Worst case: we get a guy who doesn’t have the talent of Wigs, but leaves it all on the floor every game.” … KUSTEVE
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@approxinfinity I think Steve’s quote needs a PHOF !!
“And if I had three thumbs, they’d all be up !”
globaljaybird
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@jaybate-1.0 “And if America ever needed an enema, Washington DC is where they’d put the tube !”
globaljaybird
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@approxinfinity The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth
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@approxinfinity Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams
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@approxinfinity It helps if the hitter thinks you’re a little crazy.
Nolan Ryan
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Even if you meet the Buddha in the lane… feed him the damn ball.
Phil Jackson
