Movie Hoosiers Quotes & Sayings

I knew all the time that it was all nonsense, but I couldn't understand in the least what it meant, or who was pulling the wires of rumour, or their purpose in so pulling. I began to wonder whether the pressure and anxiety and suspense of a terrible war had unhinged the public mind, so that it was ready to believe any fable, to debate the reasons for happenings which had never happened. — Arthur Machen

As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you. — John Fahey

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that. — Steven Levitan

Putin had told Yeltsin that he did not like election campaigns, and now he dismissed campaign promises as unachievable lies told by politicians and denigrated television advertisements as unseemly manipulation of gullible consumers. — Steven Lee Myers

Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity. — Laurie Graham

Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. — Kirk Cameron

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now — Bernie Sanders

The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Evan Esar

Oh, i'm going to kick his ass, and when i'm done, i'm going to squeeze his balls blue. — Nora Roberts

Let me see no more of my harsh fate: this useless struggle. — Imre Madach

I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs. — Mary Meeker

Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can't send any other way can be heard. — Phyllis Theroux

The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else's. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what's waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful. — Janice Galloway

Whelan was in the position he was, exactly — Jimmy Armfield