Dan Quinn Quotes

For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.

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• An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Increase

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Want
  • Football
  • Leave

• People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• I must never write when I do not want to write.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Want
  • Never
  • Write

• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

  Hannah More
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• 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

• Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Why
  • Sometimes
  • Understand

• I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hate
  • Change
  • Win

• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Find

• More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Materialism

• You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Care

• I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Up
  • War
  • Gun

• Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Athlete

• Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
  • True
  • Dream

• Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!

  

  Marvin Minsky

• I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Challenge

• In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Beauty
  • Point

• Don't tell me peace has broken out.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Peace
  • Broken

• For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.

  

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