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I'm happy for my kids getting postseason opportunities, for both of them playing in the Super Bowl back to back. I never would have envisioned anything like that.
~ Archie Manning
I just want to exhaust every opportunity to play and obviously try to play in a game like this - the Super Bowl.
~ Jason Witten
Leadership is by far the most important quality when it comes to making a show that's going to last and of superb quality, something classy and fun.
~ Andre Braugher
American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop culture, are very superficial, one-dimensional, and adolescent.
~ Alex Tizon
I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.
~ Colin Quinn
I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.
~ Gerard Way
Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The inner, what is it: if not intensified sky hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Yes — the springtime needed you. Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. (Ja, die Frühlinge brauchten dich wohl. Es muteten manche Stirme dir zu, dass du sie spürtest.)
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not search now for the answers which cannot be given you because you could not live them. It is a matter of living everything. Live the questions now.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps we should then bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
ghost of a distant author, with the disturbing presence of the foreign text, and with the phantom of the reader.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
launching a satyagraha before training a cadre to keep it non-violent was 'a Himalayan miscalculation' on his part.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action.
~ Ralph Ellison
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
~ Ralph Ellison
But on the other hand, it would be a great mistake to assume that the dead are absolutely powerless.
~ Ralph Ellison
Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, the famous "Burma Surgeon.
~ Ralph Ellison
My name is Peter Wheatstraw, I'm the Devil's only son-in-law
~ Ralph Ellison
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson