Azzurri Soccer Quotes & Sayings

. . . when a woman has a husband
And you've got none,
Why should she take advice from you?
Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare
And all them other highfalutin' Greeks. — Meredith Willson

Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters. — Agnes Repplier

I don't love getting up at the crack of dawn and having makeup put on my face for three hours - like, I really don't like it - and then having a part that's just not that challenging. — Rene Russo

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps. — Jennifer Granholm

Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos. — H.P. Lovecraft

We are nervous laughter and fast breath and faster heartbeats, alive alive alive. — Amy Zhang

Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio! — Alec Stewart

When you are in a combat situation, you mustn't let your mind be polluted by emotions like fear and anger. Simply accept the situation and react, even if you are facing impossible odds. Keep your head clear and you will be one step ahead of your attackers. — Aaron B. Powell

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit. — Ambrose Bierce

Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents. — Brian Sutton-Smith

We banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile had never heard of Ronnie James Dio. My shock at this news was such that I almost completely missed the fact that we were traveling on Bifrost, the rainbow bridge to Asgard. — Kevin Hearne

Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms', when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire. — Laurie Penny

alerting the system to contradictions relies critically on particular brain regions - and one in particular, called the anterior cingulate cortex. — David Eagleman

Yes, God?" "I'm sorry about this, Buddy." The voice carried, deep and resounding, like the roar of a tornado. "I know it was all so abrupt, but some things cannot be avoided. Do you have a minute?" Buddy's hand involuntarily squeezed shut against a jagged guitar pick embedded in his bloody palm. This is a joke, right? "No, no, Buddy. — Byron Suggs

Step in. The place is empty - completely empty. We find ourselves — E.L. James