1987 World Quotes

#1. I remember Simon O'Donnell being struck with cancer during Australia's 1987 World Cup campaign. I know very well what it is like to have a teammate who has been struck with a potentially fatal disease. He fought through: managed to get himself back to 100% fitness and back to playing again.

Tom Moody

#2. I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Stephen King

#3. In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

Tom Brokaw

#4. Sometimes you need to be terrified to your bones, in order for you to find your way to safety. Pain somewhat has this ability to push you beyond your comfort zone so that you can come back even stronger. To me, obstacles are not a hindrance but as stepping stones to success.

Rita Zahara

#5. 'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.

Rick Astley

#6. What kind of husband am I gonna be if I can't even hold my wife's hand?
... but I realized I may not have hands to hold my wife's hand, but when the time comes, I'll be able to hold her heart. I don't need hands to hold her heart.

Nick Vujicic

#7. I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

Thomas Piketty

#8. Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
[Still in Melbourne January 1987]

Germaine Greer

#9. Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.

Trevor Dunn

#10. That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

Orson Scott Card

#11. The pause that followed felt very important. It was one of those moments in a marriage when you have to make a critical decision with alarming speed and the consequences could last a long time, even forever.

Megan Abbott

#12. people not onlynotice feature correlations, but they can deduce reasons for them based on their knowledge of the way the world works" (Medin and Wattenmaker 1987, 36).

Anonymous

#13. Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

Bill Griffith