Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

Douglas William Jerrold

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.

John Sweeney

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

Danny Glover

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Kahlil Gibran

Every single soul is a poem.

Michael Franti

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

David Byrne

But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

Jose Mourinho

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Edmund Burke

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

Howard Nemerov

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

Al Gore

I wasn't sure about that, but one never knows. Sometimes a neighborhood, like a culture or civilization, is strong enough to absorb and acculturate any number of newcomers. But I don't know if that's true around here any longer. The outward forms and appearances look the same - [...]- but the substance has been altered.

Nelson Demille