Maurice Ager quote: "I think we took a good step. Illinois played the same team (winning 61-42). And in the back of our minds, we were measuring ourselves against them. One of the reasons I came back as a senior was to win a Big Ten championship."

That means I've got to go in there and win. Flat out. Not being cocky or anything, we've got to go i...
MAURICE AGER

That was a huge portion of it. It was hard to get into a rhythm. But they took the fight to us early...
MAURICE AGER

We make a lot of dumb mistakes. Just mental errors down the stretch. Turnovers. Just mental lapses t...
MAURICE AGER

It happened so fast. We were up there at first and now we're at the bottom. It's rough.
MAURICE AGER

It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. ...
MAURICE AGER

It's hard to focus on three players on defense.
MAURICE AGER

When I got here, it was up to the older guys to make me understand how important it was here to win ...
MAURICE AGER

Those guys stepped up. I feel fortunate to have them as teammates.
MAURICE AGER

You never realize how much that meant when we had three or four guys on the wing. We all kind of spl...
MAURICE AGER

We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first.
MAURICE AGER

I want it real bad. And I'm gonna do whatever it takes for us to get it this year. Nothing else is m...
MAURICE AGER

I couldn't really hear him at the end because I was so involved in the game. But when I looked up, I...
MAURICE AGER

A lot of times we played right into their hands. I feel if I would have played halfway decent we wou...
MAURICE AGER

Me and Paul (Davis) and Shannon (Brown) have to play at another whole different level to where we ca...
MAURICE AGER

Beating a ranked team at their crib, that's huge. For this Big Ten race, that's something that we ne...
MAURICE AGER

We've got to get Paul Davis going. Once we get him going, that's going to open up a lot of things on...
MAURICE AGER

This is a quality win for us. It's something that we need going into the Big Ten. It's something we ...
MAURICE AGER

You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.
MAURICE SENDAK

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
MAURICE SENDAK

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seven...
MAURICE CHEVALIER

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I...
MAURICE SENDAK

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed ...
MAURICE SENDAK

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoo...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify f...
MAURICE WAGNER

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called ...
MAURICE STRONG

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he give...
PRISCILLA MAURICE

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are ha...
MAURICE MATERLINCK

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt...
MAURICE SWITZER

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the da...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to...
MAURICE BLANCHOT

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order ...
MAURICE BLANCHOT

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can neve...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get progra...
MAURICE WILKES

There must be more to life than having everything.
MAURICE SENDAK

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
MAURICE CHEVALIER

We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.
MAURICE HULST

There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
MAURICE SWITZER

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
MAURICE FREEHILL

A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to reco...
MAURICE BLANCHOT

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according ...
MAURICE BLANCHOT

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?
MAURICE MASCARANHAS

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
MAURICE BARING

Today's medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. T...
MAURICE DELORT

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not vio...
MAURICE GODELIER

The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.
MAURICE SWITZER

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.
MAURICE SENDAK

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not vi...
MAURICE GODELIER

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround ...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delecta...
MAURICE BLANCHOT

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
MAURICE RAVEL

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
MAURICE SENDAK

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time....
MAURICE SAATCHI

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: wi...
MAURICE STRONG

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
MAURICE CHEVALIER

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sen...
MAURICE HINCHEY

We've been called the soundtrack of people's lives. There have been lots of downs, of course...
MAURICE WHITE

We should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany...
MAURICE ALLAIS

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather...
MAURICE ALLAIS

True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are...
MAURICE SAATCHI

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will...
MAURICE CHEVALIER

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people wou...
MAURICE GIBB

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people ...
MAURICE FLANAGAN

Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.
MAURICE GIBB

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it ...
MAURICE GIBB

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.
MAURICE GIBB

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
MAURICE SENDAK

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the g...
MAURICE SAATCHI

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite com...
MAURICE JARRE

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melanchol...
MAURICE CHEVALIER

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went...
MAURICE SENDAK

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in...
MAURICE GIBB

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's ju...
MAURICE GIBB

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentia...
MAURICE DENIS

I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scra...
MAURICE SENDAK

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
MAURICE DRUON

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different...
MAURICE RAVEL

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven'...
MAURICE STRONG

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard t...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Music is always a creative process that comes from the heart. It's a feeling, a vibration, that ...
MAURICE WHITE

All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statemen...
MAURICE ALLAIS

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth wou...
MAURICE WILKINS

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, i...
MAURICE SAATCHI

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
MAURICE SENDAK

I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cru...
MAURICE FLANAGAN

We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impac...
MAURICE STRONG

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I ...
MAURICE SENDAK

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
MAURICE FREEHILL

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
MAURICE CHEVALIER

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved ...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
MAURICE CHEVALIER

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
MAURICE CHEVALIER

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happ...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

I am moved by the light. [Lat., A lumine motus.]
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world. [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.]
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we lov...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Nature always calls me far away from the city. I only return when I can take her with me.
MAURICE SPEES

“Together we're here to move the world into an ever growing sustainable and eco-friendly social ha...
MAURICE SPEES

The feminine way is to look at the potential that is available and the masculine way is to look at w...
MAURICE SPEES

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relation...
MAURICE STRONG

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions....
MAURICE STRONG

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced,...
MAURICE STRONG

It came down as a mist.
MAURICE LUQUE

When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should ...
MAURICE GREENE

There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.
MAURICE FLANAGAN

It was found outside by a condiment stand at the north end of the arena, inside the gated area. The ...
MAURICE LUQUE

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's p...
MAURICE SENDAK

I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller...
MAURICE STRONG

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
MAURICE STRONG

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
MAURICE SETTER

That's why I'm crying out nationwide, sending e-mails all over the nation, to start an uproar.
MAURICE WATKINS

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Nobody could ever accuse Green of a last ditch campaign, he'll always run for something. But certain...
MAURICE CARROLL

In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evoluti...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to s...
MAURICE STRONG

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where t...
MAURICE STRONG

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful...
MAURICE SENDAK

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you...
MAURICE GREENE

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no pa...
MAURICE SENDAK

They're loaded. This is probably the best they've been since I've been here. When they won state in ...
MAURICE FREEMAN

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.
MAURICE DRUON

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Freedom exists in altitudes of high and low, near, far and beyond, lost and found, lack and abundanc...
MAURICE SPEES

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine the...
MAURICE STRONG

When we lose someoe we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we lov...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking beforehand
MAURICE SWITZER

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second ra...
MAURICE RAVEL

nothing seems to break the Clinton-Giuliani deadlock. Almost everyone has heard of the mayor's marit...
MAURICE CARROLL

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to Th...
MAURICE RAVEL

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we ...
MAURICE STRONG

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
MAURICE STRONG

The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any
MAURICE SWITZER

It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based u...
MAURICE FLANAGAN

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations...
MAURICE CHEVALIER

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
MAURICE GIBB

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to th...
MAURICE ASHLEY

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.
MAURICE GIBB

The lion is the king of the jungle. The track is my jungle. And the word GOAT is here... it stands f...
MAURICE GREENE

I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.
MAURICE SENDAK

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the mu...
MAURICE JARRE

I thought Chicago had more energy, that's for sure.
MAURICE CHEEKS

(The game) got away when Pierce hit those two threes.
MAURICE CHEEKS

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, we paint the semblance of a form divine.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

The horrors he saw but could not prevent, as well as some he may have directly participated in -- it...
MAURICE ELIAS

She tried to get out but the more she tried to get out, the deeper she sank.
MAURICE LUQUE

Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest ...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

We are also very pleased we could reach an amicable settlement with Prudential,
MAURICE GREENBERG

He is playing the game at a faster pace now. He gets the ball off quicker, he can check out of plays...
MAURICE DREW

Normally, the chief counsel of the FDA is someone who comes up through the ranks, ... He has a backg...
MAURICE HINCHEY

I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy child...
MAURICE SENDAK

There must be more to life than having everything!
MAURICE SENDAK

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them mor...
MAURICE SENDAK

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my c...
MAURICE SENDAK

They just pulled the hose off the engine and doused it with foam.
MAURICE LUQUE

This town was known as being a tough, little, hard-nosed little town, and there's still some extraor...
MAURICE LAMEE

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.
MAURICE SAATCHI

Freedom is having to comply with nothing, but our heart.
MAURICE SPEES

And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we st...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Nobody knew exactly what it was going to do, I mean it didn't have big promotion or anything, it jus...
MAURICE GIBB

People accuse us of being nothing more than a disco band now, but they don't know what they're talki...
MAURICE GIBB

Technology keeps busy to make us totally occupy our constantly growing minds, so that we lose grip o...
MAURICE SPEES

The results were spectacular. The region associated with aversion was activated the moment the subje...
MAURICE PTITO

The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.
MAURICE BARRES

I'm a faithful Catholic, but they are not my voice. They are a small number of Catholics who have li...
MAURICE HEALY

We walked out of the gate looking like we were the ones in the mud and they were a lot quicker than ...
MAURICE CHEEKS

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surround...
MAURICE JARRE

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
MAURICE SENDAK

I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

I've always felt that we were at our best in the most dire situations this year.
PAUL MAURICE

Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to ...
MAURICE GREENE

I think the vulgarity of it shouldn't have been directed at anyone.
MAURICE WILSON

That's the end of the search, unless we get a missing-person report. Then it would be more of a reco...
MAURICE LUQUE

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
MAURICE CHEVALIER

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
MAURICE CHEVALIER

I know there is nothing to say to change my situation. I want to apologize to Laura's father and mot...
MAURICE CHEVALIER

Now that I live the life I want to live, I dedicate my time to the part I want to give, to help othe...
MAURICE SPEES

Support: OK now that I have to constantly admit "I am not a robot" filling in forms to connect to yo...
MAURICE SPEES

Strangers do not exist; we simply create strange situations when being together.
MAURICE SPEES

My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to...
MAURICE ALLAIS

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read ...
MAURICE SENDAK

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK

We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. - The Way ...
MAURICE HULST

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
MAURICE CHEVALIER

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
MAURICE CHEVALIER

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.
MAURICE CHEVALIER

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
MAURICE BARING

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything,...
MAURICE ASHLEY

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incid...
MAURICE ASHLEY

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the U...
MAURICE ASHLEY

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the st...
MAURICE ASHLEY

I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.
MAURICE ASHLEY

I think we took a good step. Illinois played the same team (winning 61-42). And in the back of our minds, we were measuring ourselves against them. One of the reasons I came back as a senior was to win a Big Ten championship.

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Maurice Ager

I think we took a good step. Illinois played the same team (winning 61-42). And in the back of our minds, we were measuring ourselves against them. One of the reasons I came back as a senior was to win a Big Ten championship.

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