Spades Quotes - Page 3

• There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.

  Terrence Howard

  Calling, Exposed

  Interview with Kam Williams:, aalbc.com.

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• I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Learning, Sacrifice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.69, Penguin

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• I mean, the Ace of Spades example that Jonah Goldberg remembered here (and that made me remember it, too), is that Chris Matthews interview with [Barack] Obama, during the run-up to Obamacare. Not one question about it. And when you stop and think, there never is for the Democrat. The media never questions the substance of anything the Democrats do.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Part of the experience of enjoying a tennis match on TV is listening to the observations of an expert commentator -- one who knows the sport, has a genuine passion for the game, respects the viewers' intelligence, knows when to talk and when to keep quiet, can make you laugh and is not afraid to call a spade a spade.

  Dave McPherson

  Sports, Passion, Games

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• With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Gambling, Typical

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.42

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• What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Giving, Expectations, Would Be

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.218

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• If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Rob Schneider and David Spade would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this "Click", actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live.

  Adam Sandler

  Thinking, Night, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lay down the axe; fling by the spade;
  Leave in its track the toiling plough;
  The rifle and the bayonet-blade
  For arms like yours were fitter now;
  And let the hands that ply the pen
  Quit the light task, and learn to wield
  The horseman's crooked brand, and rein
  The charger on the battle-field.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Light, Hands

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• In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
  There is a new-made grave today,
  Built by never a spade nor pick,
  Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.
  There lie many fighting men.
  Dead in their youthful prime.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Lying, Fighting, Men

  Joyce Kilmer (1918). “Joyce Kilmer”

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• Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what he called a spade form, which you can imagine looks a little bit like a shovel upside down.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Cutting, Years, Together

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.

  Mike Rowe

  Hero, Blue, House

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• Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Beach, Buckets, Balls

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• Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me of James Purdy's notorious eccentricity. There's plenty of middlebrow stuff if you want it. Self-Murder isn't that.

  Kris Saknussemm

  Queens, Book, Heart

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• Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of the fig tree, makes the low wall of coarse Granite warm to the touch. Here my tools lie ready and waiting, Each one an intimate, an ally: the round basket for weeds: The zappetta, the small hoe with a short haft . . . There's a rake here as well, at at times a mattock and spade, Or two watering cans filled with water warmed by the sun. With my basket and small hoe in hand, facing the sun, I Go out for my morning walk.

  Hermann Hesse

  Weed, Morning, Wall

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• Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.

  Shirley Hibberd

  Art, Nature, Garden

  James Shirley Hibberd (1871). “The amateur's flower garden”, p.223

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• With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!

  Sarah Ferguson

  Sight, Smell, Cooking

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• Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

  Kate Spade

  Aphrodisiac, Speech, Cynicism

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• Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Heart, Character, Fiction

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• I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn’t glow. The sun didn’t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Rain, Eye, Moon

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• For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights.

  John Smit

  Knights, Virginia, Use

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• If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Exhausted, Justification, Bedrock

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.205, John Wiley & Sons

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• Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.

  Steve Toltz

  Children, Vegas, Looks

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

  Dashiell Hammett

  Men, Organization, Differences

  The Maltese Falcon ch. 20 (1930)

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• It was clear they weren’t getting any information out of Ian tonight. She, Bones, and Cat followed as Spade supported Ian, almost carrying him up the stairs to then dump him on the bed in a guest room. “Before you go, mate, turn on the telly. Something raunchy, too. Think I’ll rub one off before I sleep.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sleep, Cat, Thinking

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• At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

  Bill Bryson

  Practice, America, Feelings

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