Grantland Rice Quotes

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Grantland Rice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 1, 1880 - July 13, 1954

Topics

LifeHelpYouPlayTouchOwn

I was always kind of against streaming, but I've been traveling so much, and I usually carry a huge hard drive of digital music with me, but I haven't had time to deal with it, so I've been doing streaming. And I had this incredible breakthrough of weightlessness where I've really been loving streaming music.

Jim James

MusicTimeMeDriveDoingLoving

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Stephen Greenblatt

WritingThinkLiteraturePhysics

Fame and fortune and the interstate is great and fun, but it ain't life.

Tracy Lawrence

LifeGreatFunFameFortune

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

Tom Clancy

RealityFictionRoleSupposed

In New York, the trains run all night, and the cabs are so cheap.

Russell Tovey

New YorkNightNewRunCheapTrains

I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Michael Specter

UglyMeWalkingCircleVillage

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Denis Lavant

DanceWordsBodyActingImportant

Soon, I'm going to meet somebody around my own age, and she's going to be smart and beautiful, and I'm going to date her daughter.

Bob Saget

DaughterAgeBeautifulSmartMeet

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

William J. Clinton

FoodMcDonaldPresidentSinceEaten

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.

Sextus Propertius

LoveWingsEasyBackHandNever

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

Thomas Menino

ValuePeopleLearnYoungSkills

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

Timothy Garton Ash

CommunicationRespectFireBalance

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