Adieux A La Quotes & Sayings

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good. — Paul Westphal

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening. — Sherilyn Fenn

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do. — Neil Gaiman

In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case. — Brett Favre

He'd stepped on something. He took a step back and knelt and parted the grass with his hands. It was an apple. He picked it up and held it to the light. Hard and brown and shriveled. He wiped it with the cloth and bit into it. Dry and almost tasteless. But an apple. He ate it entire, seeds and all. He held the stem between his thumb and forefinger and let it drop. Then he went treading softly through the grass. His feet still wrapped in the remnants of the coat and the shreds of tarp and he sat and untied them and stuffed the wrappings in his pocket and went down the rows barefoot. By the time he got to the bottom of the orchard he had four more apples and he put them in his pocket and came back. — Cormac McCarthy

The stench of wolf - especially an Alpha - is very difficult to get out.
"Then you should keep your distance," she shot back. — Franca Storm

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up. — Tim McCarver

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself. — Robert Bresson

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic. — Edna Ferber

Maybe more youngsters would stay home at nights if they were not afraid to stay alone at nights. — Herbert V. Prochnow

Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems. — Bernie Mac

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University. — Julia Bacha

Micro-aggression - The plastic gun of racism; you can sneak this one through security most of the time because it is comprised of nonracist ways of being racist, nonsexist ways of being sexist, and the like. E.g., You're not like other BLANK people, or, You speak English very well. — T. Geronimo Johnson

Many skills, as every successful entrepreneur knows, cannot be taught in school. They require doing. Sometimes a life of doing. And where money-making is concerned, nothing compresses the time frame needed to leap from my-shit-just-sits-there-until-it-rains poverty to which-of-my-toilets-shall-I-use affluence like an apprenticeship with someone who already has the angles all figured out. — Mohsin Hamid

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken. — Pietro Aretino