Frank Deford Quotes

I'll forever be grateful to NPR that they gave me such extraordinary freedom... It was 37 years of a fond relationship.

Frank Deford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1938 - May 28, 2017

Topics

RelationshipFreedomGratefulMe

I introduced H.Res 430, a congressional resolution calling upon the president to declare a National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement.

John Fleming

DayPrayerLawLaw Enforcement

History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.

Andrew Lincoln

HistorySchoolMeMoreGetTerrible

Most people assume that when you go to court and win your case that you are guaranteed to get your money. Sadly, this isn't always the case.

Robert Rinder

MoneyPeopleWinYouGoAlways

The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

Robert J. Sawyer

ScienceNothingScience FictionStill

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

John Wooden

LifeHighLowValleysGetPeaks

Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time.

Rob Pike

GoodTimeYouRunCatchGet

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Robert Browning

BeautyGodBestSimpleYouGet

Over the years, I've come to realize that writing 'I Ain't Living Long Like This' was an exercise in combined musical influence, mostly that of Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan - artists no one has ever heard of.

Rodney Crowell

WritingInfluenceExerciseLongOver

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Louise Leakey

FatherAnimalChoicesSurvivalBad

One thing a narcissist doesn't like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what's on the other side of it.

Jay Parini

MirrorLookWaySideOne ThingLike

I've never particularly liked bankers.

Jonathan Safran Foer

NeverBankersLikedParticularly

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

Arthur Blank

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