“It took a lot of work to be perfect.”
“I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!”
“The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.”
“I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.”
“I've told you guys before, goalies don't think.”
“Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.”
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.”
“The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better America.”
Alexander Smith Poet
Arthur Helps Writer
Arthur Hugh Clough Poet
H. C. Bailey Author
Sydney Thompson Dobell Poet
Thomas Lovell Beddoes Poet
William Cowper Poet
William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poet
Philip Bailey Singer-songwriter
