Bobby Bowden Quotes

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

Bobby Bowden

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• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Energy
  • Civilization
  • Skill

• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • You
  • Small

• Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Ants

• I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Think
  • Know
  • Beauty

• I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Team
  • Matter
  • Most

• You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Work
  • Best

• I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Home

• I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Done

• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • You
  • Chance

• I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Time
  • Song
  • Day

• We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Art
  • Purpose
  • Performance

• The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Perfect
  • Universe
  • Ambition

• I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Theatre

• There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Eye

• I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

  

  Scott Stapp
  • Hope
  • Proud
  • Positive

• Again, we just blew our chance, it's that simple. I'll be the first one to take the blame. Everyone's a part of it. To the credit of our players, they put us in position after being .500 for the better part of the season, but we told them going into the Dayton game this team will be remembered positively or negatively by what happened in March. There will be some negative memories about this season because of what happened in March. That's the cold, hard reality.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Game
  • Reality
  • Team

• We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Good
  • Society
  • Church

• Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

  

  Scott Dixon
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Magic

• A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

  

  Bobby Bowden