Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

William Law

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

Vinny Testaverde

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

William Wilberforce

Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William James

Effort is a measure of a Man.

William Finnegan

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

William Gilmore Simms

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Vladimir Lenin

He who does not work shall not eat

Roland Barthes

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Saint Francis de Sales

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

Zane Grey

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

Zach Braff

If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.