Quotes of: Whitman Keyword

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

Alex Berenson

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

Bobby Fischer

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

Gail Parent

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

H. G. Wells

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Max Euwe

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Roger Kahn

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

Stella Young

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

Martin Parr

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

George Saunders

NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

Stephen Rodrick

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Washington Irving

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Bill Moyers

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

Niall Ferguson

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

Peggy Lipton

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

Quentin Blake

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Timothy Noah

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Donal Henahan

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Andrea Dworkin

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Barbara Cartland

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

E. W. Howe