Sampson Quotes

ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No.
SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir. ~ William Shakespeare

This isolation, this deep pit in the bottom of my stomach, didn't have to hurt so much. - Aquamarine Rosabelle bonus included in Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears ~ Chamera Sampson

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost! ~ Deborah Sampson

Let you light shine from the inside out. ~ Juliet M. Sampson

The red carpet stuff is brilliant because it's so fun. In terms of exposure, I think it's something that you can never get used to because you don't know what you're being exposed to at all times. You just don't know what to expect. ~ George Sampson

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. ~ Deborah Sampson

Sometimes you gotta fail in order to succeed ~ Sampson Davis

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward ~ Patricia Sampson

Beginnings are easier to find in hindsight ~ Natalie Corbett Sampson

Link held up a spoon. "Bend this fork with your mind." "It's a spoon." "Trick question." Sampson grabbed it and crushed it in his hand. Link swallowed. "So you think with your fists? Good to know. ~ Kami Garcia

There is no alternative universe where Ralph Sampson is a beloved symbol of excellence. There's no Philip K. Dick novel where he averages a career double-double and gets four rings. He could never be that guy. He was needed elsewhere, for other reasons. He was needed to remind people that their own self-imposed mediocrity is better than choking on transcendence. ~ Chuck Klosterman

Let your light shine from the inside out. ~ Juliet M Sampson

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step. ~ Deborah Sampson

To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship ... is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual. ~ Geoffrey Sampson

Unfortunately for Sampson, the naked mole rat was in heat at the moment. ~ Vernon D. Burns

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence! ~ Deborah Sampson

Jennifer's eyes begin to water again. "Don't let anything bad happen to him, Dr. Sampson. My husband is a famous lawyer. He sues doctors when they screw up."
"Jennifer!" Zack exclaims, embarrassed. ~ Mark M. Bello

With books you learn things, random things, whatever the author might be talking to you about, and you sort of soak them up like a sponge over the years. They are stored away in some dim recess of the unconscious mind until one day some equally random stimulus sparks a connection, and you find that you've combined different items of memory and perception into a completely new insight. ~ Guy Fraser-Sampson

OLD GRIZZLY ADAMS. [37-*] James C. Adams, or "Grizzly Adams," as he was generally termed, from the fact of his having captured so many grizzly bears, and encountered such fearful perils by his unexampled daring, was an extraordinary character. For many years a hunter and trapper in the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains, he acquired a recklessness which, added to his natural invincible courage, rendered him truly one of the most striking men of the age. He was emphatically what the English call a man of "pluck." In 1860, he arrived in New York with his famous collection of California animals, captured by himself, consisting of twenty or thirty immense grizzly bears, at the head of which stood "Old Sampson" - now in the American Museum - wolves, half a dozen other species of bear, California lions, tigers, buffalo, elk, etc., and Old Neptune, the great sea-lion, from the Pacific. ~ P.T. Barnum

His passion was the Galaxy. In retrospect, it's fitting that we won a championship for him this last year because I think he was so passionate about this team and loved every single player and the organization. ~ Steve Sampson

The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn. ~ George Sampson

It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it. ~ Anthony Sampson

sometimes people are drawn together for a purpose that even they dont recognize at the time. ~ Sampson Davis

Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God'). ~ Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee. ~ Anthony Sampson

Yeah, well, what are you going to teach me next ... how to take over the world?" I asked sarcastically.
"Good idea!" Sampson exclaimed a little too enthusiastically.
"No, bad idea!" I stressed.
"See? You are learning," Sampson said. ~ Jennifer Priester

Brandon Rush is not just one of the best freshmen in the league, he's one of the best players. ~ Kelvin Sampson

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me. ~ Jerry Leiber

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. ~ Anthony Sampson

I did exactly as Sampson said and I conjured up a creature with rabbit ears,
a wolf face, a snake body, frog feet, a pig tail, and spikes running from the top of its head to the end of its tail.
"Now," Sampson said. "This is the
kind of magic that you shouldn't do. ~ Jennifer Priester

I dance for freedom. I dance for people's reaction more than anything. I feel great and I feel like I can do anything, say anything while I'm dancing and nobody can care. I do have times when I'm angry and I literally do slam my bedroom door and dance all around my bedroom. It's a good way of getting energy out and it's a good way of doing things, but I do it purely just to entertain other people. ~ George Sampson

What do you think we should do about Sampson?" I asked.
"I would have to say ... stop him," Sam said.
"How?" I asked her.
"Someone who is as powerful and as smart and crazy as he is should do it."
"Okay, but who?"
"Well ... you should."
"So you think I'm crazy?" I asked her. ~ Jennifer Priester

I really am a little afraid, my dear," hinted the cherub meekly, "that you are not enjoying yourself?"
"On the contrary," returned Mrs. Wilfer, "quite so. Why should I not?"
"I thought, my dear, that perhaps your face might - "
"My face might be a martyrdom, but what would that import, or who should know it, if I smiled?"
And she did smile; manifestly freezing the blood of Mr. George Sampson by so doing. For that young gentleman, catching her smiling eye, was so very much appalled by its expression as to cast about in his thoughts concerning what he had done to bring it down upon himself. ~ Charles Dickens

In another kingdom, her secrets wouldn't matter. ~ Rebecca K. Sampson

Mr. Sampson, you forget the difference between Plato and Zenocrates. ~ Walter Scott

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to. ~ Kevin Sampson

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness? ~ Deborah Sampson

Speaking of the devil, what is Alma doing right now?"

"Well..." Sitting in her favorite armchair, Isabel craned her neck around to peer down the hallway to where she saw Alma squealing and clapping hands at their pet beagle Petey Sampson. With his tail wagging, he woof-woofed at her, and she woof-woofed right back at him. ~ Ed Lynskey

I mask my hate. I mask my pain. One thing that I can't mask is my dwindling grade point average. -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears ~ Chamera Sampson

I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe. ~ Deborah Sampson

She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn't there a box showing a terrified teen? ~ Natalie Corbett Sampson

Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege. ~ Deborah Sampson

Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind. ~ Geoffrey Sampson

SAMPSON

'Tis all one; I will show myself a tyrant:
when I have fought with the men, I will be civil with
the maids; I will cut off their heads.

GREGORY

The heads of the maids?

SAMPSON

Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maiden-
heads, take it in what sense thou wilt.

GREGORY

They must take it in sense that feel it.

SAMPSON

Me they shall feel while I am able to stand,
and 'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh. ~ William Shakespeare

I was that stupid, I realized. I was also stupid enough not to realize that sometimes even the most beautiful souls need to be shown love once in a while. ~ Chamera Sampson

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier? ~ Deborah Sampson

I am what I am.........both as a result of people who respected me and helped me, and of those who did not respect me and treated me badly.

Nelson Mandela ~ Anthony Sampson

We could adopt. there are lots of kids out there who could grow up to hate us as much as any kid we could make ~ Natalie Corbett Sampson

Why can I not fight for my country too? ~ Deborah Sampson

Sadie poured two cups of tea, dark and strong, the kind of tea that needed milk to take the edge off the tannin and then sugar to penetrate the fat of the milk. ~ Carl Sampson

anyone with enough compassion has the power to transform and redirect someone else's troubled life. ~ Sampson Davis

Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun. ~ Jeff Sampson

Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner. ~ Geoffrey Sampson

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up. ~ George Sampson

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. ~ Anthony Sampson

Spread sunshine and inspiration. ~ Juliet M. Sampson

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy. ~ Deborah Sampson

His separation from the rest of society is beyond vast. But we are not working within the parameters of reality; we are working within the parameters of televised sport. And that's a critical difference. It essentially makes Ralph Sampson a tall, emotive, representational nonhuman slave. And within these parameters, four thousand rebounds don't mean shit. ~ Chuck Klosterman

The prospect of happiness has a way of clouding up a person's vision. When you are in love, the kind of love that comes way too fast and way too strong, the flaws of that person you love seem to disappear.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened to me. ~ Chamera Sampson

Storylines from fiction always seem inherently improbable to occur in real life, yet when we read them we are happy to suspend our disbelief, which may simply suggest that in our everyday lives we have an irrational craving for certainty and probability. ~ Guy Fraser-Sampson

Maybe you go through life with ever-present feelings of inadequacy; you worry what other people would think if they knew the real you. ~ Aubrey Gayel Sampson

Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap. ~ George Sampson

Children can now recognize greater than a thousand corporate logos, but fewer than ten plants native to their region. The ~ Scott D. Sampson

I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions. ~ Deborah Sampson

I just want to feel like home. I just want Rosabelle. My other half. Where she was day, I was night. While I was earth, she was sky. -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears ~ Chamera Sampson

Where's my life gone? Where's it going? Looking across the grassy marshland to Flint and up the coast to Point Of Air, I start to wonder what all those poor fuckers in Wales are doing with their lives. Screwing? Sleeping in? Debating whether to take breakfast in bed to their broken fathers? Unlikely. They're probably doing what the gilded folk of Hollywood are doing, or Kowloon or Port Elizabeth. Worrying. Worrying about getting old, or about work, or about money, or about their boyfriend, mistress, lover, house, health, future. Life is shit. There is no fucking point to any of it. Not now that we've evolved past the survival stage. Maybe we used to live to hunt to kill to eat to live another day. Now we just kill time in as many sophisticated ways as possible. Pointless jobs. Pointless lives. Work. Television. Football. ~ Kevin Sampson

If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate. ~ Breanna Sampson

I was the only one who had ever even thought of becoming a doctor before that day. the truth is, none of us had seen anything to make us believe it was really possible. sometimes though, you just have to step out there and believe in something you cant quite see. ~ Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, And Rameck Hunt