“ No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness. ”
- John McGraw- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The shades of night were falling fast, As though an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device,. ”
- Excelsior- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I'm not a banner. I am an encourager and a persuader and an advocate. ”
- John Howard- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 'Twas Game Six of the Series when out of the sky, Flew Sergio's parachute, a Met banner held high. His goal was to spur our home team to success, Burst Beantown's balloon claiming Sox were the best. ”
- Phyllis Orlikoff Flug- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Yet, Freedom! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 3.7K
“ True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ”
- Erich Segal- Copy
- 312
“ The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.3K
“ It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that hold the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
- 3.2K
“ If I'm supposed to carry the banner for all the nerds in the world, I'm fine with that. ”
- Clay Aiken- Copy
- 354
“ Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour. ”
- Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton- Copy
- 117
“ Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too? ”
- Bill Veeck- Copy
- 1.2K
“ It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle. ”
- Marshal Georgi Zhukov- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporfic to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken whites. ”
- Steve Biko- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another. ”
- Helen Hunt Jackson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you… ”
- Giuseppe Mazzini- Copy
- 1.2K
“ We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervor of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons; greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke; bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives; adventurous steamers that sniff the horizons; deep-cheated locomotives whose wheels paw the tracks like the hooves of enormous steel horses bridled by tubing; and the sleek flight of planes whose propellers chatter in the wind like banners and seem to cheer like an enthusiastic crowd. ”
- Tommaso Marinetti- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
- 3.3K
“ In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 1.9K
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