Marv Albert Quotes

There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

Marv Albert

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• You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Think
  • Sick

• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Underdog

• I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Why
  • She

• Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Care
  • Worry
  • Take Care

• You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • People
  • Science
  • Color

• I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Musicians

• I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Doing
  • Jump
  • Comfort

• Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Great
  • College
  • Depression

• The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Good
  • Education
  • Purpose

• If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Love
  • Eyes
  • Pain

• And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • State
  • Fair

• In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Effort

• And it's the same when there's a war on: it's the men who go to fightWomen and children are civilians, when they're killed it's not rightMen kill men in uniform, its the way war goesWhen they run they're cowards, when they stay they are heroes.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Men
  • Children
  • War

• I was never able to praybut let me inscribe my namein the book of waves.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Book
  • Waves

• I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Country

• Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Dog

• I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Different
  • Children
  • Mother

• Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Good
  • Book
  • Game

• Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Thug

• People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.

  

  Bobby Seale
  • People
  • Up
  • Thug

• I would have waived the Jones Act, and some unions not might not like it, not union membership, but the union leaders, too many, who are thugs.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Leader
  • Might
  • Unions

• There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

  

  Marv Albert
  • Thug