Forechecking Football Quotes & Sayings

Diana frowns. "You're taking me home, right? You just said you would." "Hoink hoink! Of course, piglet. But I meant your real home." "Which, last I checked," says Diana acidly, "is in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, solar system, planet Earth." "Hmm," says the boar, hiccupping dreamily. "That's what you think, darling. Tell me, can you say you've felt really at home at that address? Haven't you been homesick your whole life? — Martha N. Beck

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics. — John Wilkes

Abortion is the taking of a life. — Mary Calderone

I am a writer, not a transcriber. — Ivan Doig

We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this area, namely, reducing the gap between high-income earners and people, citizens of our country, who are still living on very modest means indeed. But we cannot, of course, adopt the solution used 80 years ago and simply confiscate the riches of some to redistribute among others. We will use completely different means to resolve this problem, namely, we will ensure good economic growth. — Vladimir Putin

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth ... — Christina Rossetti

You cut his head off. It makes it a little difficult for him to suck your cock. — C.S. Pacat

Sent to the Monk"

Night falls
and the empty intimacy of the whole world
fills my heart to frothing.
The past has trudged to this one spot
and falls into the stream,
its flashlight in its mouth.
Ancient tears beneath the surface
rise and scatter like carp,
while an ivory hairpin floats away
like a loose tooth going back in time.

Columbia Poetry Review. Spring 2014 — Mary Ruefle

I work in a very contained environment, usually. — Kate Bush

There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of the scientific method. — Karl Pearson

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it. — Gerald Stanley Lee

High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis. — John Ruskin

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature. — Oscar Micheaux

In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator. — Tom Douglas