"Politics is like watching football. Yes, you can see it directly on your screen, but I think a lot of people want to have some understanding of what's happening, why the play is unfolding the way it is, and I think that's where it can help them, not to render judgments but to help people make their own judgments in a more informed way."

-- David Gergen

#Football Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.”

Source : Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.263, The Floating Press
“The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
“The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.”
“Assuredly, the size of (Cadel) Evans' heart will come to be compared to Phar Lap.”
“I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.”
“Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.”
“There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties”
“I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.”

Source : "Michael Pena's adjusting to the view from up there". Interview with Luiz Gomez, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2012.

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