Free Throws Attempted

Famous quotes containing the words free, throws and/or attempted:

    “Some are “industrious,” and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such I have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,—work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?”
    —Jim Bakker (b. 1940)

    “There is ... a class of fancies, of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts, and to which, as yet, I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt language.... Now, so entire is my faith in the power of words, that at times, I have believed it possible to embody even the evanescence of fancies such as I have attempted to describe.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)