Mike Parry Quotes

#1. Most people think they want Main Streets but won't make the small sacrifices in terms of time, cost, and footpower necessary to sustain them. The sad fact is that we have created a culture in which most people will happily-indeed, unthinkingly-drive an extra couple of miles to walk thirty less feet.

Bill Bryson

#2. When he takes a penalty, Graham Alexander turns his foot into a spatula-type device

Mike Parry

#3. In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

Pico Iyer

#4. When I was growing up, I always saw Karen Millen as a resource for women who were a bit older.

Sophie Turner

#5. Nothing can expand without it growing

Mike Parry

#6. It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.

William Faulkner

#7. I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways for people to die. I think I'm just very twisted!

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#8. There's a certain Englishness about the English game

Mike Parry

#9. In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?

Susan Cain

#10. The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#11. Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list

Mike Parry

#12. There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

Amy Waldman

#13. That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

Alan Parry

#14. The Greatest" is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

Mike Parry

#15. I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

Sugata Mitra

#16. But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

Hermann Hesse

#17. For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

Jamaica Kincaid

#18. Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand

Mike Parry

#19. I'm not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn't go to any other team.

Tim Hardaway