Barry Larkin Quotes

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.

Barry Larkin

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• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Son

• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
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  • America

• I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Making
  • Quit

• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • America
  • Creative
  • Solitude

• Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Trying
  • Software
  • Apple

• Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Artist
  • Because
  • Making

• When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Grow

• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Irish

• When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Tears
  • Walk

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Beginning

• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Justice
  • Easy
  • Injustice

• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Song
  • Lady

• Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Think
  • Me

• Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Community

• If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Me

• People just get kicks out of making other people sad.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Sad
  • Just

• In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Football
  • Television

• My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

  

  Robert Palmer
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Me
  • Football