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John Sterling, born on July 4, 1948, is a renowned announcer. He has extensive experience in sports commentary and is known for his professional style and in-depth analysis.

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Famous John Sterling Quotes

“Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwell Closed in Fancy’s rainbow shell”

Wisdom Fantasy

Author:John Sterling

“Commerce has made all winds her mistress.”

Made Wind Commerce Mistress

Author:John Sterling

“Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.”

Men World Ideas Feelings Answers Creation Color Type Shapes Approach Realization Dawn Closest

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.”

Light Earth Moving Joy Spirit Return Warm Thee Awake

Book:The Poetical Works of John Sterling

Source: The Poetical Works of John Sterling

“One dupe is as impossible as one twin.”

Impossible Twins Dupes Duplicity

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.”

Men Believe School Consolation Earnestness

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.”

Education Cutting Modern Fingers Rings Wrists Modern Education

Author:John Sterling

“Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.”

Self Moments Tears Laughter Mere Graves Passing Passings Enthusiasm Fantastic Excitement Controlled Inward Hysterical

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.”

Art Faith

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.”

Ifs Way Whole Reality Beautiful Saws Sacrifice Excellent Fancy Substitutes

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.”

Men Every Man Folly Resemblance Caricatures

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Compliments are only lies in court clothes.”

Lying Clothes Court Compliment

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.”

Men Law Fighting Language Teach Battle Shapes Pyramids

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.”

Joy Poetry Left Magic Mankind Poetry Is Left Alone

Book:Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge

Source: Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge

“Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.”

Past Flower Clothes Graves Grass Repentance

Book:The Poetical Works of John Sterling

Source: The Poetical Works of John Sterling

“Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.”

Water Speech Flow Raises Lakes Back Again Pumps Great Lakes

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.”

Hands Superstitions Bows Arbitrary Mould Semblance

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.”

Truth Products Truth Is Scales Patents Unproductive

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.”

Whole Truth Truth Is Ideals

Book:Essays and Tales: Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge

Source: Essays and Tales: Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge

“Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.”

Giving Life Is Busy Receiving Trading

Book:The Poetical Works of John Sterling

Source: The Poetical Works of John Sterling

“I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.”

Thinking Beautiful Honor Electra

Author:John Sterling

“You just cant predict baseball”

Baseball Cant

Author:John Sterling

“Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.”

Action Emotion Emotional Elements Madness Leading On

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.”

Thinking Feels Enough Dream Dies Toil Follow Your Dreams Arranging

Author:John Sterling

“Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.”

Self Consciousness Instinct Intuition Incapable Self Consciousness Chakra Natural Instinct Instinct Intuition

Book:Essays and tales, collected and ed., with a memoir, by J.C. Hare

Source: Essays and tales, collected and ed., with a memoir, by J.C. Hare

“Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.”

Men Feelings Answers Color Shapes

Author:John Sterling

“There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.”

Men Believe Doe Lying Deceit

Author:John Sterling

“The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.”

Self Education Teach Worst Denial Self-denial

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.”

Pain Joy Strong Consciousness Noble Stagnant

Author:John Sterling

“The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.”

Men Trouble Ideals Wealthy Clients

Author:John Sterling

“Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.”

World Lord Affection Tyrants Fierce

Author:John Sterling

“Man is a substance clad in shadows.”

Men Humanity Shadow Substance

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

About the Author

Born: July 4, 1948
Known for: Announcer
Quotes: 32

Books & Sources

Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologuesRelated source material

The Poetical Works of John SterlingRelated source material

Essays and Tales: Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledgeRelated source material

Essays and tales, collected and ed., with a memoir, by J.C. HareRelated source material

Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledgeRelated source material

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