Classic Football Commentator Quotes & Sayings

It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life. — William McFee

I have no relationship with the Russian government at all. — Edward Snowden

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon. — Norman Vincent Peale

You are only as big as your experiences. — Scott Weiland

The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself. — Lisa Wingate

Truth is cold and hard but it is also the first step on the path to hope and salvation. — Lynn Tilton

If a man is unmarried, he is called a bachelor. If a woman is unmarried, she is called a spinster or an old maid. What is it about an unmarried woman that poses such a threat to the patriarchal order? Mainly, it is that women are no one's property when we're unmarried. We're under no one's control, and neither are our children. There is no telling what we might do or say. — Marianne Williamson

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. — Nikola Tesla

It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties. — Yotam Ottolenghi

The country now has a consensual government that enjoys wide public support, and wants to determine by force the future of the remaining 20 percent. It has, as have all its predecessors, from Labor and Likud alike, resorted to settlement as the best means for doing this. This entails the destruction of an independent Palestinian infrastructure. These politicians sense - and they may not be wrong in this - that the public mood in Israel would allow them to go even further, should they wish to do so. They could emulate the ethnic cleansing of 1948, this time not only by driving the Palestinians out of the occupied territories, but, if necessary, also driving out the one million Palestinians living within the pre-1967 borders of Israel. In such an atmosphere, then, the Nakbah is not so much denied in Israel as cherished. — Noam Chomsky

I was on the train the other day, and I heard somebody say, I'm really good at checkers. That's the same thing as saying, I'm not good at very many things. — Demetri Martin

We need a place, just for us. It could be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it. It might be a whole secret country, and you and I could be the rulers of it. — Katherine Paterson