Zirin Quotes

#1. A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin's sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit's famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and uplifting. It would be criminal not to read this book.

Linda Fairstein

#2. I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

Dave Zirin

#3. If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.

Hal Borland

#4. The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

Dave Zirin

#5. His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.

Anthony Powell

#6. Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.

Peace Pilgrim

#7. It is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.

Dave Zirin

#8. David Cameron says he wants to keep Britain in the EU, but his tactics are so divisive that, if he gets what he wants it will be at the price of huge ill-will in Europe; or if he doesn't, it will be at the price of increased anti-EU sentiment in his own party and in British society.

John Bruton

#9. This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too many men across the world see too many women as repositories of their rage, frustration, narcissism or simply their will to enact violence.

Dave Zirin

#10. I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck.

Katja Millay

#11. In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

Jodi Picoult

#12. You have to plan ahead so that rather then seek revenge for the horse's misbehavior, you see his aggressive behavior shaping up and can redirect it. You change his mind before he's acted and move on to something else.

Buck Brannaman

#13. I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.

Michael Zaslow

#14. I looked back at Constantine, and for a moment, his expression held a look of longing so fierce that it made me blink.

Anne Zoelle

#15. Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

Dave Zirin

#16. Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

Julie Burchill

#17. The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

Arthur Conan Doyle