Charles Tillman Quotes

He made some plays, we came up short on defense. That's the bottom line. There are no excuses. I'm not blaming the coaches or blaming the calls.

Charles Tillman

• Defense
• Coaches
• Came Up
• No Excuses
• Not Blaming

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• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Think
  • Look

• People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Long
  • Challenge

• You're hoping for a new CBA because it frees up a lot of money for all of us.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Money
  • Hope

• All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • People
  • Work
  • Way

• There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Up
  • Why
  • Dream

• My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Children
  • She
  • Mother

• Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Hand

• I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • White
  • Sexuality
  • Chapel

• Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Tired
  • Wrong
  • Answer

• What is the point of me changing? If I became another person, it would be bad. If I acted in a different way with my friends, they would not be happy. It's important I stay the same.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Important
  • Same
  • Point

• Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Human
  • Revolt
  • Stupor

• My coaches and teammates really trusted me and gave me a chance to improve. They would come to me after a game I didn't score and say, 'Hey, don't worry about it. Next game you'll score.' The guys were great. It's an unbelievable team. It feels like home for me.

  

  Alexander Ovechkin
  • Home
  • Team
  • Coaches

• Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Country
  • Problem
  • Imagine

• Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Defense
  • Offense
  • Championships

• He made some plays, we came up short on defense. That's the bottom line. There are no excuses. I'm not blaming the coaches or blaming the calls.

  

  Charles Tillman
  • Defense
  • Coaches
  • Came Up