Frank Deford Quotes
It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established - that was always the obligatory verb: established - before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.Frank Deford
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida -
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley -
Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
Dallas Roberts -
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren -
I actually like football a great deal.
H. G. Bissinger -
Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
Calvin Harris -
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
Samantha Shannon -
On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
J. D. Vance -
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
Eduardo Chillida -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
Vanessa Williams -
I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
Yehuda Berg -
Many are called but few get up.
Oliver Herford -
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
Daniel Barenboim -
I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
Lady Gaga
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Concrete steps are needed to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in military plans, doctrines, and policies.
Peter Maurer -
Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.
Barack Obama -
I don't think 'Shotgon Stories' or 'Take Shelter' have hopeless endings. I think there's hope in both those films, no matter how hard you have to search for it. It's there.
Jeff Nichols -
It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established - that was always the obligatory verb: established - before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.
Frank Deford