Chris Chelios Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
-
I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
-
I got to write most of everything I said.
-
People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
-
I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.
-
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
-
I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.
-
If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
-
There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.
-
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
-
The imagination is man's power over nature.
-
I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
-
I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
-
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
-
As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
-
There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
-
Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
-
I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
-
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
-
If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
-
Only a Europe that is conscious of its own values can be both an economically strong and a morally and intellectually respected partner, and thereby extend its hospitality to others. It's a cultural disgrace that we are forced to identify no-go areas for foreigners.
-
It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
-
I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.
-
Nike is renting it out for the whole week.
