Oar Quotes

You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out!

Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.

I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport. For me it's just a way of life. It's a chance to finally shut your brain off, and live within the moment. And, for as long as I am able, I will ride until the day I die.

You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none...so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.