Against Football Steve Almond Quotes

#1. Mental face palm. Suddenly I wasn't sure there was enough room on the campus for both me and his ego.

Gemma Halliday

#2. If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.

Karl Marx

#3. Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don't always get what we wish for.

Tucker Max

#4. She sits in a tub full to the brim, her chin submerged, her knees bent and revealed. She feels the water drift as her lungs expand and deflate with every breath. She images the space inside her it doesn't touch.

B.E. Hewson

#5. Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

David Levithan

#6. It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

Maureen Johnson

#7. Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been.

Ruth Ann Minner

#8. Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

Mason Cooley

#9. You have a lot of faith in luck, don't you? (Shahara)
Not at all. She's a vicious bitch who seldom knocks on my door. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. She turned towards me, put her fingertips against my chest. She was enjoying it somewhat, too, the little betrayal of Mark's memory. She still loved him, differently; now and again there must be these retrospective cruelties, to consolidate her newness, to let her not love him in the old way.

Glen Duncan

#11. When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Khaled Hosseini

#12. Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.

Colette

#13. Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.

Deepak Chopra