Extra Point Attempts

Famous quotes containing the words extra, point and/or attempts:

    Three early risings make an extra day.
    Chinese proverb.

    The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
    Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)

    Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
    John Updike (b. 1932)