Zirin's 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 have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

Meg Rosoff

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

Dave Zirin

#4. The greatest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. 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

#6. His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,
Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;

John Keats

#7. 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

#8. Even if it kills me, staying awake and seeing you ... is better than any dream.

Josephine Angelini

#9. Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Al Pacino

#10. To me, there's no better way to stir the soul than through the power of the written word.

Jake Parent

#11. I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls.

Jennifer Lee

#12. I don't really do friends,' I told him.
'Good,' he said. 'I don't want you to "do" me. We've established the flaws in that plan already ...

Kody Keplinger

#13. By the way, in case you weren't paying attention or something, did you catch what Mr. Powell called me? "Young artist." I bet you missed that.

Gary D. Schmidt

#14. 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

#15. Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.

Mike Singletary

#16. Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.

S. Jay Olshansky

#17. Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.

Jaggi Vasudev

#18. The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

William John Locke

#19. 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

#20. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates