Dorothy Leigh Sayers Quotes

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Dorothy Leigh Sayers

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• I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Why
  • Growing
  • Question

• The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • Help
  • Ideas

• I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Book
  • Think
  • Want

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

  

  Karl Rove
  • May
  • House
  • Decision

• People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Goal
  • Ask

• I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Genius

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Food
  • Alone

• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Always
  • Start
  • Size

• We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Army
  • Year

• When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Father

• I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Thinking
  • Alone
  • Brain

• Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Man
  • Car
  • Voice

• Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Today
  • Things
  • Modern

• But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Important

• Listen up, me name be Buchanan, me knows enough things bout politics. Get involved, mack daddies. Y'all better realize, that nothing be a better way to get your kicks. West side, aight?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up

• I am in that position where I finish something, it goes out, and I'm onto the next thing. I finish it, it goes out, onto the next thing.

  

  Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz

• This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Live
  • Matter
  • Place

• There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

  

  Dorothy Leigh Sayers