Gail Devers Quotes

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• The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Life
  • Goal
  • Stage

• I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Push

• One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Never
  • Terrible
  • Produce

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Drama
  • Period
  • Everything

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • News
  • Evening

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Women
  • Why
  • Sky

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Great
  • Think
  • Novel

• In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Nature
  • Impossible
  • Laws

• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • War
  • Army
  • Egypt

• When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Mean
  • Friendly

• No philosopher would be willing to accept the idea of philosophy as a way of escape, but might there not be a question of the philosopher being in duty bound to refuse to accept a world, like our real world here, of disorder and crime where the values of the mind and spirit can no longer find a home?

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

  Gail Devers
  • God
  • Children
  • Real