Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Malcolm de Chazal

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Robert Bloch

Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.

Sri Chinmoy

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

Serena Williams

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Ben Hecht

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Barbara Walters

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

Dave Barry

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Erma Bombeck

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

Esther Williams

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

Harsha Bhogle

Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.

Harsha Bhogle

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

H. L. Mencken

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Irwin Shaw

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

John Travolta

Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.

Kirsty Gallacher

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Muhammad Ali

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

Malcolm Gladwell

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Michael Lewis

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

Pierre de Coubertin

I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.

Sebastian Coe