Mr Feeny Quotes & Sayings

Americans, no matter what their age, spend at least eight and a half hours a day looking at a television, a computer monitor, or the screen of their mobile phone. Frequently, they use two or even all three of the devices simultaneously. — Nicholas Carr

Nothing doth sooner breed a distaste or satiety than plenty. — Michel De Montaigne

Toreador pants make your feet look big too — Albert Einstein

I enjoy now doing what I do ... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life. — Yogi Berra

In every moment, the Universe is whispering to you. You're constantly surrounded by signs, coincidences, and synchronicities , all aimed at propelling you in the direction of your destiny. — Denise Linn

There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremely successful when all the other teams were practicing in pads. — Jimmy Johnson

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And he knew again that she was not saying everything she meant; in a kind of secret language she was telling him today something that he must remember and understand tomorrow. He watched her face, his heart swollen with love for her and with an anguish, not yet his own, that he did not understand and that frightened him. — James Baldwin

I love the idea that you can create a world through song. — Jon Foreman

Believe me, Vicomte, people rarely acquire the qualities they can dispense with. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream — Gustave Flaubert

The main thing as a director, you always want to have a bit of a worry about the material you're going to get yourself into. You want to be a bit scared of it so that you have that excitement of having to climb the mountain. — Susanne Bier

There were elements of Mad Men at Newsweek, except that unlike the natty advertising types, journalists were notorious slobs and our two- and three-martini lunches were out of the office, not in ... Kevin Buckley, who was hired in 1963, described the Newsweek of the early 1960s as similar to an old movie, with the wisecracking private eye and his Girl Friday. "The 'hubba-hubba' climate was tolerated," he recalled. "I was told the editors would ask the girls to do handstands on their desk. Was there rancor? Yes. But in this climate, a laugh would follow. — Lynn Povich