Peter Drury Quotes

#1. Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.

George Meredith

#3. It had to go in, but it didn't.

Peter Drury

#4. If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.

Billy Graham

#5. Alan Smith ... very much a striker, by reputation ... and by fact

Peter Drury

#6. What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

Leonard Peltier

#7. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. (An African American child's chances are two in five.)

Michael Pollan

#8. The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.

Peter Drury

#9. Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.

Peter Drury

#10. Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.

Peter Drury

#11. What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker.

Peter Drury

#12. The crowd ... a cacophony of colour

Peter Drury

#13. A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one.

Peter Drury

#14. We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.

Mother Teresa

#15. Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.

Ken Carter

#16. In his view love ended only when it was possible to return to oneself without fear or disgust,

Elena Ferrante

#17. It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

Stendhal

#18. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Eric Butterworth

#19. Right now Captain Cranky and Commander Hard-Ass weren't tops on his list of people he wanted to be around...

Katherine McIntyre

#20. Having a job is like having a lobotomy.

Donald O'Donovan

#21. I've always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots - I'm pretty good with either one.

Denis Leary

#22. The horse jumped over the fucking fence.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.