Nick Hornby Fever Pitch Quotes & Sayings

And older people were like babies; something about their demeanour made you love them despite their ignorant selfish personalities. — Cecelia Ahern

It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own. — Nick Hornby

The truth we have to tell and the things we have to do are too unique to fit within a usual job setting. — James Redfield

My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time! — Matt Barr

Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them. — Paulo Coelho

Mr. President: We, women political prisoners of the Soviet Union, congratulate you on your reelection to the spot of President of the USA. We look with hope to your country which is on the road of FREEDOM and respect for HUMAN RIGHTS. We wish you success on this road. — Ronald Reagan

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation. — Floyd Skloot

What I needed more than anything was a place where unfocused unhappiness could thrive, where I could be still and worry and mope; I had the blues, and when I watched my team I could unwrap them and let them breathe a little. — Nick Hornby

Love knows not from where you came, what religion you are, or even your name. Discover it and you will be whole, for when you do you have found your soul. — Charles F. Glassman

I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore them or seize them. — Nick Hornby

Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the numbers don't lie. I think it's just because in the West crowds tend to be manufactured by commercial interesting, and they have, or at least should have, a responsibility for keeping people safe. — John Seabrook

Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services. — Lisa Gansky

Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it. — Tom Black

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error. — Karl Donitz

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. — Nick Hornby