Paderewski Pianist Quotes & Sayings

A handful of individual football stars - not necessarily the most talented, but those boasting good looks, beautiful wives and an animated private life - assumed a role in European public life and popular newspapers hitherto reserved for movie starlets or minor royalty. When David Beckham (an English player of moderate technical gifts but an unsurpassed talent for self-promotion) moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2003, it made headline television news in every member-state of the European Union. Beckham's embarrassing performance at the European Football Championships in Portugal the following year - the England captain missed two penalties, hastening his country's ignominious early departure - did little to dampen the enthusiasm of his fans. — Tony Judt

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. — Elliott Colla

He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present. — Carol Shields

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over. — Nnedi Okorafor

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only. — John Ruskin

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. — Richard Russo

He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything. — Spencer Johnson