Athletes And Politics Quotes & Sayings

The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it. — Patrick DeWitt

As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton. — Nancy Gibbs

Samuel, I've never considered our relationship to be tragic. I will always remember you as my first love. The first guy who opened me up and saw in me something passionate and strong that needed to be brought to life. Tragic ... never. Beautiful ... always. — Angela Richardson

Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get. — Dave Eggers

The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again. — Rudyard Kipling

In some respects we all acknowledge the sexual politics of meat. When we think that men, especially male athletes, need meat, or when wives report that they could give up meat but they fix it for their husbands, the overt association between meat eating and virile maleness is enacted. It is the covert associations that are more elusive to pinpoint as they are so deeply embedded within our culture. My — Carol J. Adams

But she missed simple things, parents' birthdays, a rug underfoot, nights when she didn't have to sleep in a zipped bag. She began to think she was inadequate to the strict plain shapes of churchly faith. Head pains hit her at the end of the day. They came with a shining, an electrochemical sheen, light from out of nowhere, brain-made, the eerie gleam of who you are. — Don DeLillo

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy. — Jim Rohn

I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary. — Ashton Kutcher

[Arthur to Merlin]
I'm the Prince of Wales, and you're Welsh. I can do whatever I bloody well like to you. — FayJay

I like real girls. When they're in bed with you, it's not a show. They just want to do that. — Andrew Dice Clay

How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind. — Richard Steele

He was the corner that her eyes always strayed toward — David Levithan

Time is like the ocean, always there, always different. — Ogden Nash

Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison. — C.S. Lewis

I say what I mean. I don't speak in code. That's why I am a star and ace communicator. — Rush Limbaugh

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. — Ralph Waldo Emerson