Steve Rushin Quotes

Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it - the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably, to a first-round knockout or a 30-point blowout or a fourth-inning rainout.

Steve Rushin

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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

John Ortberg

LoveLovedYouKnowOnlySomebody

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

Tom Lehrer

EnjoyYouPlayDidHowApart

For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or, in the case of Charles Kennedy, both. All these links, politically, economically, culturally, are part of my Union. Would Glasgow's brilliant Commonwealth Games or the Edinburgh Festival be any better for our being independent? I doubt it.

Rory Bremner

TimeBetterDoubtIndependentGames

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

Rowan Williams

TodayMoreWellThanEverMicrocosm

The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.

Julia Gillard

WorldGameRichGeniusRulesPlay

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Joyce Meyer

BeautyBeautifulMomentTreeRoots

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

Josh Lucas

HappinessBabyFriendsHouseShe

Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

Don Meredith

ExpectHerCookPerfectionistHe

I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.

Colm Toibin

BusinessPeopleThinkAmericanYou

I wasn't put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a plus-size model; I was put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a model, as a rookie, as Ashley Graham.

Ashley Graham

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Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.

Mario Andretti

SupportThinkTwoI ThinkFormula

'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride. The book is about finding their way back to each other, growing as people, and inventing a life they can share.

Linda Lael Miller

LifeHistorySkyMountainPeople

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