Alan Page Quotes

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

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• An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Conflict

• For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Use

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Like
  • Fantastic

• You keep learning all the time.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Time
  • You
  • Learning

• For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Body

• I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • People
  • Want
  • Responsibility

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Thank God

• Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Things
  • Imagine
  • Either

• The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump's is very dark: Things are not going well. There are dark days ahead unless you make a change, and he's the one to fix it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Different
  • America
  • Change

• A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Meet

• Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Trees
  • Acres

• I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • She
  • Girl
  • Go

• I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • God
  • Sports
  • Training

• When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • World
  • Writing
  • Live

• When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • World
  • Mission
  • Focused

• I believe the happiest moments of your life are yet to come.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Moments

• Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Real
  • Father
  • Game

• Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest games in Baltimore had been when Johns Hopkins took on Susquehanna or Franklin & Marshall at homecoming.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Football
  • Athlete
  • Homecoming

• I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Lost
  • City
  • Radio

• I know I'm no Whitney Houston.

  

  Agyness Deyn

• How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

  

  Alan Page
  • Football
  • Impact
  • Involved