Quotes of: Playing-field Keyword

Sometimes grace is having the strength to persevere through the storm. Sometimes it's having the guts to rebuild, to take a chance, to follow your nose and your heart rather than your head. Sometimes grace is finding out that your preconceived notion...

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that'...

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

In altre parole, uno degli scopi fondamentali delle emozioni è fornirci una scala di valori, in modo da poter scegliere che cosa è importante, costoso, bello o prezioso. In assenza di emozioni tutto ci sembrerebbe uguale, quindi ci ritroveremmo nel...

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you do...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that myt...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Q: [Showing Bond a tracking device] Reception on the dashboard, here. Audo-visual [sic] Q: , range a hundred and fifty miles. James Bond: Ingenious, and useful too. Allow a man to stop off for a quick one en route. Q: It has not been perfected, out o...

Goldfinger

We ought not to speak only about the economics of globalization, but about the psychology of globalization. It's like the psychology of a battered woman being faced with her husband again and being asked to trust him again. That's what is happening. ...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He wriggled his toes, breathed hard through his nose, twisted his brown moustache where some drops of water still clung, and looked himself critically a...

The Go-Between

As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place. He chuckled rather heartily at my naiveté. 'I'm afraid it's not as if we have substit...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

Julian Casablancas

I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.

Nancy Lopez

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

Charles Williams

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.

Terry Bradshaw

Michael Llewelyn Davies: It's a play! J.M. Barrie: It's not just *a* play, Michael. It's *the* play.

Finding Neverland

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

Jai Courtney

I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America.

Tom Hiddleston

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

Alan Hansen

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.

Buck Bannister

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

Wes Welker

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.' - Martina Navratilova

The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers