Famous quotes containing the words liberty, flames, basketball, history and/or coaches:
“A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.”
—Francis Picabia (1878–1953)
“The more people gathering firewood, the higher the flames will grow.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)