All Quotes

In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
‐‐ Brett Favre

In the NFL, every practice could make or break you. If you dropped one ball, you'd worry about getting cut.
‐‐ Darren Flutie

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.
‐‐ Eric Dickerson

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.
‐‐ Eric Dickerson

In the NFL, you know how people love going to fancy restaurants? I am not a fancy-restaurant guy. I am a good-tasting steak-and-potatoes guy.
‐‐ Tim Tebow

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
‐‐ John Sweeney

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.
‐‐ John Seabrook

In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
‐‐ Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
‐‐ Lukas Foss

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
‐‐ Erich Fromm

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
‐‐ Lou Holtz

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.
‐‐ Rick Derringer

In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
‐‐ Raf Simons

In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

In the normal process of evaluating the end of the season, I meet with key executives for thorough discussions and evaluations of all aspects of football operations.
‐‐ Jeffrey Lurie

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.
‐‐ John Prescott

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
‐‐ Fanny Kemble

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.
‐‐ Yehuda Berg

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
‐‐ Robert Bresson

In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.
‐‐ August Krogh

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.
‐‐ Meg Rosoff

In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.
‐‐ Davy Jones

In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.
‐‐ Frank Abagnale

In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.
‐‐ Alexandra Patsavas

In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.
‐‐ Don Ameche

In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.
‐‐ Gilbert Hernandez

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
‐‐ David Attenborough

In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
‐‐ Foster Friess

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.
‐‐ Levi Strauss

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.
‐‐ John Glenn

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
‐‐ Bill Paxton

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.
‐‐ Evel Knievel

In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
‐‐ Bruce Forsyth

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
‐‐ Albert Ellis

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.
‐‐ Frank Woolley

In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit with governors of central banks and finance ministers and, in some cases, prime ministers. They all know Travelex. We are regarded as the establishment - the world's largest retailer of foreign currency.
‐‐ Lloyd Dorfman

In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi