Frank Deford Quotes

I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'

Frank Deford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

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Editorials are, obviously, pieces of opinion journalism. They are not intended to be dispassionate, balanced accountings of a news situation or issue. They present a strong and strongly argued position and do not necessarily present or even take into account the opposing position.

Andrew Rosenthal

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Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Andrew Denton

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In mainland China, there are many good theaters - sometimes better than Hong Kong.

Andrew Lau

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I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

John Polkinghorne

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What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Roger Ebert

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Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Robert Trout

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I've got crap teeth, crap hair. I never have facials. I still have hairs in the middle of my eyebrows.

Roisin Murphy

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My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.

Mohit Chauhan

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I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

Joseph Jarman

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I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

Chelsea Cain

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We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

Brian Greene

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