(249 quotes found)
“Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low”
Wallace Sayre
“I have no emotional stake in Panda fucking.”
George Carlin
“What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.”
William Albert Allard
“I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.”
John Mayer
“A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment”
Willis Player
“One of the conditions (for escaping the stake during Inquisition in Spain) was that of stating all they knew of other heretics and apostates, which proved an exceedingly fruitful source of information as, under the general terror, there was little he”
Henry Charles Lea
“We know what's at stake. We know that we can go out there and put ourselves in a really nice position. If we get this 'W,' it puts us one step closer to having a really nice playoff scenario.”
Jake Plummer
“I think it really stakes the claim that I'm the champion, ... I run like a champion. I show up big when it's time to show up big.”
Justin Gatlin
“No stake ever grew old with the bark on”
Zulu Proverb
“The first glass you drive in like a stake, the second flies like a crake, and after the third they fly like wee little birds.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy