Frank Deford Quotes

Bill Russell was the pivot on which the whole sport turned.

Frank Deford

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• Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Missing

• Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Live
  • Fear

• I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Women
  • Support
  • Inspire

• All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Black

• A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Way
  • Democracy
  • Carry

• The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trouble

• I feel good. I think everything went good.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Think
  • Feel Good

• I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Judge

• I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Funny
  • Optimist
  • Carries

• It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Know
  • Yourself
  • Easy

• Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Will

• I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Funny
  • Credit
  • Tongue

• I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.

  

  Gary Speed
  • City
  • Fans
  • Playing

• The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Audience

• That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Work
  • Different
  • Love

• Don't fight forces, use them.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Fight
  • Use
  • Forces

• My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mother

• Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Child
  • Pride
  • Mankind

• I've been exploring what works for me, and what I enjoy. It's about diet for me as well as training.And so finding something you enjoy, making sure it works for you and sticking at it would be my advice.

  

  Nick Youngquest
  • Training
  • Enjoy
  • Advice

• I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Film
  • Enough
  • Extras

• Bill Russell was the pivot on which the whole sport turned.

  

  Frank Deford