Dawidoff Quotes

#1. The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.

Nicholas Dawidoff

#2. You can't start a fire in the pouring rain.

Tristan Prettyman

#3. This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

Rumi

#4. Every book title becomes infinitely better if 'in your pants' or 'from your pants' is added to the title.

John Green

#5. Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

Nicholas Dawidoff

#6. The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.

George Osborne

#7. Berg made himself unique so comparisons were impossible.

Nicholas Dawidoff

#8. Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

P.L. Travers

#9. Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.

Nicholas Dawidoff

#10. The mind is as big as the universe.

Helen Keller

#11. American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#12. Innovation requires having at least three things: a great idea, the engineering talent to execute it, and the business savvy (plus deal-making moxie) to turn it into a successful product.

Walter Isaacson

#13. I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

Norah Jones

#14. She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.

Anthony J. Carson

#15. All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thomas De Quincey

#16. Berg paid his way with stories.

Nicholas Dawidoff

#17. What I missed was what I missed every year when the season ended and abruptly the radio was quiet. I missed them.

Nicholas Dawidoff

#18. But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I'd heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.

Nicholas Dawidoff

#19. Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

Bertrand Russell

#20. Ryan was not only gregarious but also a happily married inamorato! (Around the facility, when the other coaches teased him about this episode, Ryan would retort affably, "I'm the only guy in history who gets in a sex scandal with his wife!")

Nicholas Dawidoff

#21. How fortunate, then, that we serve a God who quickens the dead. Who breathes life into the lifeless. Do you not think that a God who formed man out of dust can form a new creation in you?

Roseanna M. White

#22. The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.

Tom Ford

#23. When you work all the time, the other aspects of your identity recede until they seem to have disappeared.

Nicholas Dawidoff

#24. Dawidoff, Nicholas. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York: Vintage, 1994. de

Gregory Benford

#25. A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.

Nicholas Dawidoff

#26. She hated cleaning up after making something.

Patricia Highsmith