Taimanov Opening Quotes & Sayings

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct. — Vicente Del Bosque

Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. — Elinor Glyn

had occurred to very few in the hopeful-starlet community that regular features and low body weight might not after all be counted on to buy you a thing that mattered. The shock of the Cielo Drive murders was bad enough out in civilian life, but the impact on Shasta and her friends was paralyzing. You could be the sweetest girl in the business, smart with your money, careful about dope, aware of how far to trust people in this town, which was not at all, you could be nice to everybody - focus pullers, grips, — Thomas Pynchon

I didn't like horses when I was a kid. — Mary Gaitskill

The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust. — Bill Vaughan

I thought you'd forgotten," she said, legitimately surprised. it had never left her mind
especially in light of recent developments
but she'd thought it had slipped his.
"I don't forget anything," he teased. "Especially something like that. Wait for me, and we'll talk. — Richelle Mead

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic. — David Copperfield

WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood? — Adolf Hitler

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. — Charles J. Shields

I've been practicin' my morgue face for when I have to go identify your body. Wanna see it? Nick said then he arranged his face in this kind of mock, sad, shocked look and slowly shook his head like a world with vigilante social workers
mystified him. — Kristen Ashley

When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions
always a minimum of five hundred times
and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up ... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer. — Clay Aiken

We say we're stubborn on vision and flexible on details. — Eric Schmidt