Nagurski Trophy Quotes & Sayings

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you ... They find out what you can do, what you do best, how it works, and how they can use you. — Ann B. Davis

I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar. — Timothy Geithner

As I left the landing, I had the peculiar thought that I was not the first to pocket the photo, that someone would always come behind to replace it, to circle the lighthouse keeper again. — Jeff VanderMeer

I just bet Dad another thousand that you'll be back by this Christmas." - I — Whitney G.

Hate cannot destroy hate, but love can and does. Not the soft and negative thing that has carried the name and misrepresented the emotion, but love that suffers all things and is kind, love that accepts responsibility, love that marches, love that suffers, love that bleeds and dies for a great cause - but to rise again — Daniel A. Poling

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films. — Monica Potter

For this my mother wrapped me warm,
And called me home against the storm,
And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,
And gave me roughage in my diet,
And tucked me in my bed at eight,
And clipped my hair, and marked my weight,
And watched me as I sat and stood:
That I might grow to womanhood
To hear a whistle and drop my wits
And break my heart to clattering bits. — Dorothy Parker

When Ben came back to me, he said, "Why are you laying with your face in the sand?"
I made sure all the laughter was out of me before I rolled over. "I think it helps sunburn." I said. — Audrey Couloumbis

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly. — Hector Hugh Munro

Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings. — Frances Goodrich

The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines. — Albert Ellis

Rooms should be timeless. — Sister Parish

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Absurd. It was absurd to think that someone like that could have any power over him. Yet she would, if she won the auction.
He wanted her to. The thought swept Arin with a merciless, ugly joy. He'd never seen her before, but he guessed who she was: Lady Kestrel, General Trajan's daughter.
The crowd heard her bid. And at once it seemed that Arin was worth something after all. — Marie Rutkoski

Except when I get down and write ... then I let my imagination go to places I never knew existed and my characters invade my mind. — Mark Alders