Geoffrey Boycott Quotes

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Geoffrey Boycott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 21, 1940

Topics

ManTalentPeopleAmbitionWasted

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

John C. Reilly

LifePerfectActorNeverEmployee

I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.

Jerry Lewis

WillNeverYearsAudienceTell

The Obama administration would say that if you are a Catholic institution, you can only limit your conscience waivers or exclusions to people of the Catholic Church. That would mean that Catholic institutions couldn't treat people of other religions, and that makes no sense.

John Fleming

PeopleTreatChurchYouSayLimit

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

Andrew Wyeth

JoyWindowFlyingYouPlaceEmotion

I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

John Hodgman

CharacterPersonalityDifferentLike

I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.

Matthew Ashford

WorldThinkLearnYouOutAnything

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

John Walters

DecisionImpactResultKnowGetUse

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

Simon Callow

Growing UpDownGrowingLondonUp

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.

Tommy Bond

ManCoolThinkIntelligentHimLike

I know we don't need automatic weapons, but the question may boil down to what is an automatic weapon.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

DownKnowQuestionNeedMayWeapon

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Mary Kay Blakely

KnowledgeMeYearsInspiredMagical

Injuries are not only a physical question, which is the most important thing, of course, but also a question of your mind. If you're thinking: 'I'm not going to make it', 'I can't cope', 'it hurts', 'it's never going to get better', then it won't.

Luis Suarez

MindThinkingBetterInjuriesYou

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