Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Monday, May 21, 2012 – Neil Simon
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Monday, May 21, 2012 – Neil Simon
“New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.”
And
“There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.”
And
“You’re a witness. You’re always standing around watching what’s happening, scribbling in your book what other people do. You have to get in the middle of it. You have to take sides. Make a contribution to the fight. Any fight. The one you believe in.”
And
“Once you start compromising your thoughts, you’re a candidate for mediocrity.”
And
“I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they’ve come up with so far.”
And
“I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you’ll be a person worthy of your own respects.”
And
“If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.”
And
“In a sense, everything you write is autobiographical because it is going through your brain, so it comes out like litmus paper, it always catches some of who you are.”
And
“If you can go through life without ever experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.”
And
“Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.”
And
“Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.”
Wikipedia: Neil Simon
