Thompson Shot Put

Famous quotes containing the words thompson, shot and/or put:

    As grand
    And griefless as a rich man’s funeral.
    —Sidney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874)

    If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I’m not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.
    Venus Williams (b. 1980)

    Yes, but I do not travel to find comfortable, rich, and hospitable people, or clear sky, or ingots that cost too much. But if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all, and buy it, and put myself on the road to-day.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)