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A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.


Dorothy L. Sayers

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J. K. ROWLING If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
BOB HOPE If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.
DAVID CASSIDY I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on...
VICKY MCCLURE If you haven't had a few dents in your resume, you haven't tried.
ANDREW FORREST I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorot...
KAZUO ISHIGURO I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.
DOMINIC MONAGHAN I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of tryi...
DAN PINK What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettie...
KIN HUBBARD If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
IMELDA MARCOS You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Inste...
DANIEL H. PINK I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You...
MARY BERRY If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
SOPHIA LOREN If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
TOMMY LASORDA Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of fr...
MUHAMMAD ALI You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life...
WOLE SOYINKA The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me...
CHLOE SEVIGNY Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go...
GEORGE WEAH Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with some...
PETER ACKROYD Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
VERNON HOWARD If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic atta...
HELEN FIELDING The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't ...
JIMMY DOOLITTLE At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got ...
TRAVIS KALANICK If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the...
MARK HADDON If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?
KATIE PRICE When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones y...
ALAN LADD In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you...
OM PURI If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and s...
WILLIAM GILBERT You've either got it or you haven't.
LIAM GALLAGHER I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming.
ALAN ARKIN No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
OGDEN NASH I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers...
LAURA ANNE GILMAN Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
PAUL CEZANNE I think swagger's a confidence. It's a confidence of you knowing that you work hard for your...
AMAR'E STOUDEMIRE Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i...
TOM PETERS If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say wha...
TASHA SMITH You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own...
BRIAN GRAZER Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
PAT OLIPHANT If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
ROBERTSON DAVIES If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHES The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man wil...
ANEURIN BEVAN I haven't seen one second of any episode of 'Lost,' ever.
BROOKE ELLIOTT Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't ...
VIC MIGNOGNA I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
VICTORIA BECKHAM My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words un...
JAMES SALTER Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't...
CHARLIE PARKER You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics fo...
JOHN IRVING I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends!...
CHER LLOYD You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody els...
BILLY PORTER I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tensio...
JOHN LE CARRE Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your p...
JUSTIN ROSENSTEIN I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, an...
JOSH BILLINGS I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you...
DAVID BYRNE We actually added an extra electric guitar to beef up 'Need You Now', but we haven't cha...
DAVE HAYWOOD Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any an...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured...
BRUNO MARS I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry beca...
JIM HARRISON If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change...
WOODY GUTHRIE A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying,...
ATHOL FUGARD I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
VICTORIA WOOD Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because ...
NICOLAS CAGE Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a...
JOHN LE CARRE The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. Y...
GENEVIEVE BUJOLD If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
NIELS BOHR If you're a juvenile delinquent today, you're a hacker. You live in your parent's house;...
JOHN WATERS The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.
LEE WESTWOOD If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
ZIG ZIGLAR If you look at any of the big companies, whether it is IBM or L'Oreal, they have a corporate rel...
SANDRA LERNER I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
JACK VANCE I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not af...
ABBY WAMBACH We still haven't seen any cars take advantage of the electric powertrain in terms of how you pro...
HENRIK FISKER We're trying to put you at the very heart of your own suspense thriller, ... You play you.
NEIL YOUNG I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a v...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't g...
MAHALIA JACKSON You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice chara...
PATRICK STEWART If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven'...
JEAN KERR The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI If you want to Rich ...own your own Home and your own Business. Be FREE to pursue life in your own w...
LORRIN L. LEE A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving ...
DAVID SIMON If you want a life full of passion give life to your passion.
MARJORIE CANALES If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
CLARENCE DAY For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven'...
GRETE WAITZ If you haven't signed anything, you cant be ripped off.
DAVE SIM If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort...
JEREMY CLARKSON You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's ...
STEVE MARTIN Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying t...
ZEDD It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you...
GORDON RAMSAY There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a lo...
GRACE JONES If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your...
GELETT BURGESS I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an en...
WENTWORTH MILLER Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the prev...
FEDE ALVAREZ You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
MERYL STREEP It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is...
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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS (One character on another:)

"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the who...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going i...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they ge...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find I care less and less
Who goes...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS [O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer sh...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave '...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Do you know how to pick a lock?"
"Not in the least, I'm afraid."
"I often wonder what we g...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon profess...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.

"Well...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I do know the worst sin--perhaps the only sin--passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always somethin...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the charact...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people'...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling bac...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Placetne, magistra?"

"Placet.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS He was being about as protective as a can-opener.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of hi...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the t...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am se...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by a...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to wor...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are bot...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in not...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS [W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man)...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and st...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 Contempt of material things as such is, in fa...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the att...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrs...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS "The Kingdom of Heaven", said the Lord Christ, "is among you." But what, precisely, is the Kingdom o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Feast of Thomas the Apostle Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new mo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Continuing a short series on sin: Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
DOROTHY L. SAYERS And by the way, my dear,' he said, 'you might just mention to Mrs. Sutton that if she must read the ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had neve...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Perhaps we are not following Christ all the way or in the right spirit. We are likely, for example, ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything -- it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenth...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and lea...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job . . . are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in noth...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the mos...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Why do you want a letter from me? Why don't you take the trouble to find out for yourselves what Chr...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much las...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and wha...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love you - I am at rest with you- I have come home.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Work is not primarily a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is or it should be...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The two men sat silent for a little, and then Lord Peter said:

"D'you like your job?" DOROTHY L. SAYERS Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS You may say you won’t interfere with another person’s soul, but you do—merely by existing. The...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they w...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm cer...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS [On marriage and permanent attachment:]

Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's very good of you--"

"No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I d...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS [T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting t...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS How should anything be sacred to an advertiser?" demanded Ingleby, helping himself to four lumps of ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There, eastward, within a stone’s throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls, fantastic, unreal as ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The mellow bells, soaring and singing in tower and steeple, told of time's flight through an eternit...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human beha...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;
If we perish in the seeking, why, ho...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, c...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of c...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Experience has taught me," said Peter (...) "that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he shou...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The boat rocked perilously as they heaved and tore at the clinging weeds, razor-sharp and strong as ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Peter—do please be happy. I mean, you’ve always been the comfortable sort of person that nothing...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I say--I've thought of a good plot for a detective story."
"Really?"
"Top--hole. You know,...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it," said Wimsey. "I dare say that's an idea which has already o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, ...
GALE SAYERS I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ...
GALE SAYERS There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reas...
GALE SAYERS Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
GALE SAYERS We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There ar...
GALE SAYERS Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
GALE SAYERS I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
GALE SAYERS What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of t...
GALE SAYERS We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
GALE SAYERS Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Ira...
GALE SAYERS I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remem...
GALE SAYERS Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will...
GALE SAYERS There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
GALE SAYERS When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
GALE SAYERS I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
GALE SAYERS Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting co...
JUDITH SAYERS Half these people out here who are getting autographs are getting it for somebody else -- a dealer o...
GALE SAYERS He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag...
GALE SAYERS Tomorrow, you might see a passing shower around the midday.
MATT SAYERS I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes...
GALE SAYERS Both Ray and I are racing fans. Also, we both have the same goals and desire to succeed, to win and ...
GALE SAYERS There's no way I would have made the Hall of Fame or set any of the records I did by myself. No matt...
GALE SAYERS It's all about possibilities. Now that we're re-connected, it also gives us an incentive to build co...
JUDITH SAYERS There is a great deal of potential, but there are also a few challenges for any potential operator. ...
JUDITH SAYERS There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but th...
JUDITH SAYERS The next five years will be very exciting. We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti...
JENNIFER SAYERS There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi...
JENNIFER SAYERS Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is t...
DOROTHY DIX Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries...
DOROTHY DUNNETT My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
DOROTHY KILGALLEN That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it...
DOROTHY PARKER You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
DOROTHY DIX You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak...
DOROTHY DIX Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
DOROTHY PARKER The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
DOROTHY DAY I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basi...
DOROTHY RIERA The friends I made have slipped and strayed.
And who's the one that cares
A trifling lot and...
DOROTHY PARKER Work is the province of cattle.
DOROTHY PARKER I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to th...
DOROTHY HAMILL I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed wa...
DOROTHY HAMILL Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And ...
DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a...
DOROTHY PARKER If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'...
DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
DOROTHY PARKER Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ...
DOROTHY PARKER The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap...
DOROTHY NEVILL Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
DOROTHY THOMPSON Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of...
DOROTHY ALLISON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...
DOROTHY PARKER If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
DOROTHY GAMBRELL If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
DOROTHY PARKER Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
DOROTHY ALLISON Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I...
DOROTHY PARKER