Quotes of: Sports-pages Keyword

Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book. You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the story as it races ahead, not above the world but through it, through forests and complications, the chaos of intentions and cities....

Salamander

He expected pages and pages of bright pictures of pancakes of every variety shown in plain stacks, or built into castles or bridges or igloos, or shaped like airplanes or rowboats or fire engines. And pitchers of syrup to choose from -- partridge ber...

Time Stops for No Mouse

The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in progress. For the past fifty or so, a kind of slow terror has been rising in his breast. All these pages had seemed necessar...

Robert Stone

Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and "remembers" what it just read because it's still there, on the page, simultaneously...

David Mitchell

Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

Philosophy: The Essential Study Guide

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

Tiki Barber

I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

Mitt Romney

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

Lincoln Steffens

All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.

Saina Nehwal

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Billy Corgan

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

Mario Lopez

My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

Ashley Tisdale

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

Evan Davis

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

Eric Heiden

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Fridtjof Nansen

I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

Lennie James

I always separated sports and my personal life.

Carl Lewis

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

David Boreanaz

If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.

Dana Hussein

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

Lynn Davies

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

Phil McGraw