Maurice Grimaud famous quotes

Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.
-- Maurice Grimaud

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Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar bears killed, but the revenue currently generated by American sport hunters for conservation and research efforts would be eliminated.

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.

Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.

The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.

The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.