The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.
I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.
Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.
The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we've had is that I'm physically capable of doing this and dominating the game, but the mental part was not there. I don't know if it comes with age, but I had to learn to be mentally tough.
For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea
In a weird way, it's not different from any other kind of joke-telling. You make those calculations about jokes about celebrities: is this a fair hit or not? The stakes were higher because the whole world was crumbling around us, but in terms of joke-telling, it's all about feel.
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.
Women will not be free until we can speak our minds and our hearts without having to worry that men will crucify us, women will crucify us, the press will crucify us, or our children will be ashamed. . . Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we feel we have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.