C M Sporting Goods Quotes & Sayings

I discovered that I, a writer of what is known as creative nonfiction, could do the research and bridge the gap in my books and lectures through true storytelling. This is not 'dumbing down' or writing for eighth graders. It is writing for readers across cultures, age barriers, social and political landscapes. — Lee Gutkind

You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight. — Mark Hyman

I used to be a happy person. A person with a sparkle in her eye. I was carefree, easygoing, fun, and knew joy on a regular basis. I'm smart. I have a college degree from a good school. I've built a career from my degree and I'm good at it. I had friends. Lots of good friends. I used to go out. I was passionate about life and love and myself. None of that person exists anymore. She's been stripped of all redeeming qualities. — K. Larsen

One more day of drinking, perhaps, and then I'll get myself straight tomorrow. — Paula Hawkins

A meat temperature gauge is a priceless tool. You can get a very inexpensive one at most hardware or sporting goods stores, which will easily help you determine the temperature of your meat so it is not over or undercooked. Pork is normally done at about 160, internal temperature. Steaks are cooked medium rare from 145 to 150. 165, medium. Well done is about 175, internal temperature. — Johnny Trigg

Wait until you see what I bought, Tina gushed with a female's mistaken belief that a man was ever interested in what came out of a shopping bag unless it had to do with lingerie, auto parts, or sporting goods. — Nancy Gideon

He is the sort of despicable person who has no understanding of how despicable he is, and my badgering him with insults won't change that; nothing will. Rather than angry, I just feel heavy, useless. — Veronica Roth

When I was little, my father used to sell guns and ammo at a sporting goods store, but I always told everyone he was an arms dealer, because it sounded more exciting. — Jenny Lawson

For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer. — Jochen Zeitz

Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak. — William Powell

He started at a sporting goods store, where he bought several models of steel tent stakes, icepicks ("sailors buy them," an employee told him), hammers, and rubber mallets. No one even raised a brow at his purchase of Homicidal Maniac Variety Pack - As Seen On TV. — Nina Post

There will soon be streams of data coming from all manner of products - appliances, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. Wouldn't you rather live in a world where you can export the data from your son's football helmet to a new app that monitors force and impact against a cohort of high school players around the country? — John Battelle

I can't believe I can buy a shotgun at the sporting goods counter," he waved back at the entrance, "but the safe sex shit is like hidden in this little corner."
"Welcome to Utah. — James Buchanan

Carli's was a small club at the end of a passage between a sporting-goods store and a circulating library. There was a grilled door and a man behind it who had given up trying to look as if it mattered who came in. (Smart-Aleck Kill) — Raymond Chandler

It shows how long-lived anger is, the desire for vengeance: it has a nuclear half-life, and it teaches people patience in the most sinister way. — Claire Messud

Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage. — Aldo Leopold

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store. — Reinhold Messner

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. — Wendell Phillips

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business. — Paul Newman

Would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate. — Jack Smith

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products. — Bob Uecker

We are the flower of love in the garden we call earth. — Debasish Mridha

I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors. — Paul Newman

Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary. — Mike May