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Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.
BYRON NELSON
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
BOB KNIGHT
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
BOBBY KNIGHT
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
BOBBY KNIGHT
I remember when I first came out on the Tour. I was hitting practice balls and Sam Snead and Bob Goa...
LEE TREVINO
It's got me baffled. We play well against worthy opponents. After 11 games we just don't have any co...
DAVE STARLING
We do have other kids that can play. Katie Snead had a huge rebound and basket in overtime late in t...
JEFF BRENNING
Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
SAM SNEAD
Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
SAM SNEAD
Those who go along get along.
SAM SNEAD
The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
SAM SNEAD
Golf is played with the arms.
SAM SNEAD
Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the n...
SAM SNEAD
Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
SAM SNEAD
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
SAM SNEAD
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
SAM SNEAD
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to y...
SAM SNEAD
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
SAM SNEAD
Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next ...
SAM SNEAD
The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
SAM SNEAD
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
SAM SNEAD
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
SAM SNEAD
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back fr...
SAM SNEAD
Practice puts brains in your muscles.
SAM SNEAD
You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.
SAM SNEAD
The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.
SAM SNEAD
The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing.
SAM SNEAD
Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease.
SAM SNEAD
The greens are harder than a whore's heart.
SAM SNEAD
Then I'll be back here when I'm 68.
SAM SNEAD
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to y...
SAM SNEAD
The greens are harder than a whore's heart.
SAM SNEAD
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
SAM SNEAD
This tour is name-driven, always has been and always will be. Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead carried th...
TOM WATSON
It is like having two opponents to play against. There is the opponent on the field and then there a...
AMADO GUEVARA
Everything goes up a notch, and you have to play at your absolute peak. There's no such thing as tak...
GREG ESLINGER
It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
LAURA CARMICHAEL
We're stronger at the back and opponents are having a hard time scoring goals against us. Scoring go...
CARLO ANCELOTTI
Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.
SUZY KASSEM
We always play games like this against these guys.
BRUISER FLINT
And never forget my heart is always in your hands
RENEE AHDIEH
They're steeped in tradition, and they've always kind of been lurking around the top 20 for the past...
LIZA KELLY
Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
SARAH DESSEN
Your vision is uniquely individual on par to your fingerprint
IAN IJH HOWELL
Today they played to their ability. They stepped up. I talked to them the other night [after Monday'...
MARIANNE BRETSCHNEIDER
Our size has always held (opponents) under their average. But also our guards are very athletic. Ath...
DAVID LONG
We play in the Ivy League, where we're one of the better teams year-in and year-out. We play in a ma...
ED STEFANSKI
Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.
JAPANESE PROVERB
People in there are always trying to rob Sam. Sam has called police a whole bunch of times.
JANICE WILLIAMS
I want to play against tough teams and tough opponents. That gets you going. I'm very excited for th...
ED NELSON
We're just hoping that we continue on our journey trying to play attractive soccer and give our kids...
JAY ENTLICH
I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I’d competed with, and against, men far better, fas...
PHIL KNIGHT
What's your name, son?' Sam said. The man looked to be about Sam's age, but Sam always thought calli...
TOD GOLDBERG
Where you can make up ground is if the wind blows and your opponents make big numbers. I think you c...
PHIL MICKELSON
If we go once a month, we'll forget how to play, so it's best if we go every other week.
CYD POUGIALES
It's one of those days you'd like to forget about, move on, try to get better and play on Tuesday.
DALE HARPENAU
He's developing a finesse game. He's not just a big guy. Yet, if you forget that he can play down lo...
JOSE GIL
Forget our record. We feel like we can play with anybody. We can say we got our first win behind us....
KIRK MORRISON
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
KHALIL GIBRAN
Bardmoor is a tough team, for sure, ... They're especially tough when you play a 4.0 player, even if...
BOB HAMMOND
Alex is one of those guys who always creates havoc for opponents. He's one of my most consistent for...
JIMMY DOWELL
Always play a game with somebody, never against them. Always win a game, never beat an opponent.
ANDREW BAILEY
You know what I told those doctors? ... I told them [forget] you, I'm going to see my grandsons play...
LARRY CHASE
It's always difficult playing against a great team because you can't play your own game. You have to...
ANNIE STALZER
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h...
KHALIL GIBRAN
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
It's always fun to play against Hoover. We're friends with all those guys.
JAKE HANIKA
Loyal par paresse, honnête par lâcheté, bon par relâchement, doux par crainte, intelligent par a...
PAUL VALéRY
This will strengthen Koizumi's opponents. More people will be encouraged to speak out against the vi...
HIROSHI NAKANISHI
Never forget your roots; by strengthening its foundation you shall always bear the fruits.
DR NIRVADHA SINGH
Forget your voice, sing!
Forget your feet, dance!
Forget your life, live!
Forget your...
KAMAND KOJOURI
We just need to go out there and play our game, and not worry about how our opponents have fared aga...
CONNIE CLARK
Sam is our strongest and most skilled player. With him and with the way Michael Williams is playing ...
CLIFF REED
I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you'r...
ZAYN MALIK
We try to play football; don't forget it, right. My teams always in my career try to play footba...
PEP GUARDIOLA
One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
We can play attacking football. But, we can play like with Germany (defensively), and still create m...
ALEKSANDRS STARKOVS
When you're playing against the best, you have to play your best.
DECLAN KIDNEY
Guys didn't come here to play the opponents we played in the first 10 games.
JASON DONALD
You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.
MIUCCIA PRADA
You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
BEAR BRYANT
I always felt the play came first. If it didn't touch me, I'd say forget the part.
ELIZABETH WILSON
It's always fun to play against Ottawa, the two best teams in the league. I think it's a good sign w...
ANTERO NIITTYMAKI
It is more a case of us giving the goals away than a product of our opponents play, ... We need to o...
CLAUDE MAKELELE
Sam didn't play like a sophomore tonight. He played a lot like a seasoned senior.
LARRY USHER
Josh is a quality hitter, and against Long Beach it showed that we can not afford to have his bat ou...
WAYNE GRAHAM
After the game (against Wisconsin) was done we just wanted to forget about it. We knew what we had a...
DANNY IRMEN
Romans, never forget that government is your medium! Be this your art:-to practice men in habit of p...
VIRGIL
To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forg...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Your shot isn't always on, but you can always play good defense.
AMY MAHLUM
I feel pretty confident saying the scoring average [on No. 4] is going to play over par. I guess it ...
CHARLES HOWELL III
Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
IDI AMIN
Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of eve...
JOHN CARTER
Your mind has a way of not letting you forget things you wish you could. Especially with people. Lik...
JOHN COREY WHALEY
If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to...
LYLE LOVETT
It was always fun to play against Mike growing up. Now that we are on the same team, it's even bette...
MICHAEL CHAN
It's always fun to play against good competition. Also, a lot of scouts will be there.
DAVID BOYKIN
Always test yourself against your own past! This is a mind game! If you play this game well, only th...
DR. VINOD B. NAIR

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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
SAM SNEAD
Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
SAM SNEAD
Those who go along get along.
SAM SNEAD
The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
SAM SNEAD
Golf is played with the arms.
SAM SNEAD
Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the n...
SAM SNEAD
Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
SAM SNEAD
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
SAM SNEAD
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
SAM SNEAD
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to y...
SAM SNEAD
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
SAM SNEAD
Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next ...
SAM SNEAD
The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
SAM SNEAD
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
SAM SNEAD
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
SAM SNEAD
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back fr...
SAM SNEAD
Practice puts brains in your muscles.
SAM SNEAD
You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.
SAM SNEAD
The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.
SAM SNEAD
The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing.
SAM SNEAD
Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease.
SAM SNEAD
The greens are harder than a whore's heart.
SAM SNEAD
Then I'll be back here when I'm 68.
SAM SNEAD
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to y...
SAM SNEAD
The greens are harder than a whore's heart.
SAM SNEAD
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
SAM SNEAD
We talked about making little runs in the first half, and we sensed we could take control of the gam...
ART SNEAD
We found our heart. All the talent in the world doesn't matter without passion, and we hadn't been p...
ART SNEAD
Last year, we started seven freshmen, and this year we will probably only start two. That makes it a...
CINDY SNEAD
We will get a lot of players in during the tournament and get a good idea of who fits where in the l...
CINDY SNEAD
Her name of the game is speed. Mary puts a lot of pressure on the defense because of her speed and w...
CINDY SNEAD
If she stays healthy, she will be a dominating force on the mound and she will give us a very good c...
CINDY SNEAD
We feel like we have very strong pitching and our defense looks really good, too.
CINDY SNEAD
It's a definite plus to have kids that are that size and can play. But we run a no-huddle, so they h...
WILLIE SNEAD
My heart only beats for you but you never listen it
SAM
You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go
SAM
Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
SAM KEAN
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON
Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
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It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN
I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN
If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN
When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN
I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
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Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI
R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
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I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin...
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ...
SAM RAIMI
My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
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I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI
Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI
It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI
As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ...
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I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the...
SAM RAIMI
I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
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I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the...
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
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You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ...
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
SAM RAIMI
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
SAM RAIMI
The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH
Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH
Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
SAM PECKINPAH
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never...
SAM PALLADIO
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ...
SAM PALLADIO
I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
SAM PALLADIO
If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'...
SAM PALLADIO
Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL
'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
SAM NEILL
I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL
I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL
I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL
Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL
I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL
I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ...
SAM MENDES
It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES
For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES
One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES
I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES
Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES
I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES
You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES
If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES
I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES
Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES
There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES
You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES
I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
SAM MENDES
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
SAM MENDES
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES
It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
SAM MENDES
I want to inspire, and be inspired.
SAM MENDES
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON
I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON
The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
SAM LEVENSON
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
SAM LEVENSON
You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
SAM LEVENSON
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im...
SAM LEVENSON
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c...
SAM LEVENSON
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t...
SAM LEVENSON
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
SAM LEVENSON
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
SAM LEVENSON
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
SAM LEVENSON
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l...
SAM LEVENSON
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...
SAM LEVENSON
I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
SAM KINISON
I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ...
SAM KINISON
I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON
I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON
Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON
I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON
I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
SAM KINISON
It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON
Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
SAM KINISON
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
SAM KINISON
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
SAM KINISON
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
SAM KINISON
Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
SAM KINISON
Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
SAM KINISON
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
SAM KINISON
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up....
SAM KINISON
Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water sl...
SAM KINISON
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
SAM KINISON
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit...
SAM KINISON
I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&...
SAM KINISON
My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
SAM KINISON
You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no...
SAM KINISON
You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
SAM KEEN
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ...
SAM KEEN
Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr...
SAM KEAN
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
SAM KEAN
Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you...
SAM KEAN
In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman...
SAM KEAN
The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren...
SAM KEAN
Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe...
SAM KEAN
Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili...
SAM KEAN
Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges...
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Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode...
SAM KEAN
Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs...
SAM KEAN
One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a...
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors...
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The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w...
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The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
SAM KEAN
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN
The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and...
SAM KEAN
Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impres...
SAM KEAN
Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything...
SAM KEAN
I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat...
SAM KEAN
Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ...
SAM KEAN
Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
SAM KEAN
I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w...
SAM HUNTINGTON
I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from th...
SAM HUNTINGTON
You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo...
SAM HUNTINGTON
My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little b...
SAM HUNTINGTON
In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in t...
SAM HUNTINGTON
I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w...
SAM HUNTINGTON
I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the ...
SAM HUNTINGTON
I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di...
SAM HUNT