Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back ag...
FRANCES RODMAN Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave tow...
FRANCES RODMAN Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.
FRANCES RODMAN The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin
FRANCES RODMAN Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else
FRANCES RODMAN In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
DENNIS RODMAN I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
DENNIS RODMAN Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
DENNIS RODMAN I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.
DENNIS RODMAN This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
DENNIS RODMAN Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
DENNIS RODMAN Good riddance to bad rubbish.
RODMAN PHILBRICK Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or...
DENNIS RODMAN They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
DENNIS RODMAN The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and ...
DENNIS RODMAN At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bed...
DENNIS RODMAN I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I co...
RODMAN PHILBRICK I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
DENNIS RODMAN When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
DENNIS RODMAN I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.
DENNIS RODMAN Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.
DENNIS RODMAN I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
DENNIS RODMAN I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.
DENNIS RODMAN I'll be the judge of my own manliness.
DENNIS RODMAN I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.
DENNIS RODMAN The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Mich...
DENNIS RODMAN Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all acros...
RODMAN PHILBRICK We were getting cable TV on his watch.
DENNIS RODMAN I do love animals,
DENNIS RODMAN I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
DENNIS RODMAN Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the...
DENNIS RODMAN I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.
DENNIS RODMAN Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when yo...
RODMAN PHILBRICK When I look out of my window at all those construction sites, I see a sea of nonperforming loans loo...
JACK RODMAN Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a ...
PETER RODMAN They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
DENNIS RODMAN You can love me or you can hate me
DENNIS RODMAN Bad as I Wanna Be.
DENNIS RODMAN It's in the top 10, ... Those people didn't think I was smart enough.
DENNIS RODMAN At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms wh...
DENNIS RODMAN Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill ...
DENNIS RODMAN My rookie year, I was very immature.
DENNIS RODMAN I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoff...
DENNIS RODMAN I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a musc...
RODMAN PHILBRICK We think both sides would gain by having more interaction. We would learn more about them, and perha...
PETER RODMAN I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
DENNIS RODMAN The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
DENNIS RODMAN The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
DENNIS RODMAN I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter...
DENNIS RODMAN Our girls expect to win the mile relay. If we get beat, it's like shock to them. However fast somebo...
JACK RODMAN International investors have not gone into this with their eyes shut.
JACK RODMAN That supply will far exceed demand, meaning owners will find it increasingly hard to rent out their ...
JACK RODMAN The scale of development here is unprecedented anywhere in the world.
JACK RODMAN I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and...
RODMAN PHILBRICK We see it that the fight is still on and he knows that,
PETER RODMAN Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours
RODMAN PHILBRICK We didn't get the bounces we needed tonight. In a game like this, mistakes will kill you. But we hun...
NEIL RODMAN I don't need to sink the ball, I just need to do things that got me where I was. At 44, it is diffic...
DENNIS RODMAN Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasan...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure rob...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us,
With Freedom'...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners t...
FRANCES BEINECKE Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
FRANCES PERKINS Every year, tens of millions of salmon return to the pristine shores of Bristol Bay in Alaska. They ...
FRANCES BEINECKE Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from al...
FRANCES BEINECKE Man has been adjudged a social animal.
FRANCES WRIGHT Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unkn...
FRANCES WRIGHT If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetua...
FRANCES WRIGHT Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
FRANCES WRIGHT Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
FRANCES WRIGHT It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advan...
FRANCES WRIGHT He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed,...
FRANCES WRIGHT The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
FRANCES WRIGHT It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the...
FRANCES WRIGHT These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may a...
FRANCES WRIGHT There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights o...
FRANCES WRIGHT Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
FRANCES WRIGHT Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have...
FRANCES WRIGHT Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at t...
FRANCES WRIGHT Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong a...
FRANCES WRIGHT Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
FRANCES WRIGHT Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, w...
FRANCES WRIGHT Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no lon...
FRANCES WRIGHT If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all th...
FRANCES WRIGHT The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed ...
FRANCES WRIGHT All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your ...
FRANCES WRIGHT Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you...
FRANCES WRIGHT But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; n...
FRANCES PERKINS To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, ...
FRANCES PERKINS In America, public opinion is the leader.
FRANCES PERKINS The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between hi...
FRANCES PERKINS Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solv...
FRANCES PERKINS The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to oth...
FRANCES PERKINS I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main bread...
FRANCES O'GRADY Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limit...
FRANCES O'GRADY The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the t...
FRANCES O'GRADY Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the und...
FRANCES O'GRADY When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expecta...
FRANCES O'GRADY Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of th...
FRANCES O'GRADY From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is m...
FRANCES O'GRADY The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market ...
FRANCES O'GRADY A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people ...
FRANCES O'GRADY The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will pr...
FRANCES O'GRADY Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a ...
FRANCES O'GRADY I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can&...
FRANCES O'GRADY There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make...
FRANCES O'GRADY The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relyi...
FRANCES O'GRADY Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union t...
FRANCES O'GRADY My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they car...
FRANCES O'GRADY Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have l...
FRANCES O'GRADY There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinar...
FRANCES O'GRADY As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going ...
FRANCES O'GRADY I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in term...
FRANCES O'GRADY All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get ...
FRANCES O'GRADY Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the ...
FRANCES O'GRADY You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gende...
FRANCES O'GRADY I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think the...
FRANCES O'CONNOR In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I ...
FRANCES O'CONNOR I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic P...
FRANCES O'CONNOR I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I...
FRANCES O'CONNOR I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionat...
FRANCES O'CONNOR I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
FRANCES O'CONNOR The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth...
FRANCES O'CONNOR There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemploy...
FRANCES MCDORMAND It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a...
FRANCES MCDORMAND Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
FRANCES MCDORMAND Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't alw...
FRANCES MCDORMAND I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'...
FRANCES MCDORMAND I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, y...
FRANCES MCDORMAND Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car ch...
FRANCES MCDORMAND It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my ...
FRANCES MCDORMAND I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
FRANCES MCDORMAND Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
FRANCES MCDORMAND The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
FRANCES MCDORMAND I am an ordinary person.
FRANCES MCDORMAND I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie st...
FRANCES MCDORMAND The only power you have is the word no.
FRANCES MCDORMAND I never trusted good-looking boys.
FRANCES MCDORMAND I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
FRANCES MCDORMAND I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. I...
FRANCES MAYES In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
FRANCES MAYES I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ra...
FRANCES MAYES What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are tra...
FRANCES MAYES If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing t...
FRANCES MAYES Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand ...
FRANCES MAYES It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
FRANCES MAYES Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, th...
FRANCES MAYES I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The...
FRANCES MAYES When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every singl...
FRANCES MAYES I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there be...
FRANCES MAYES When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
FRANCES MAYES I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central Ameri...
FRANCES MAYES I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anythin...
FRANCES MAYES The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really en...
FRANCES MAYES Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
FRANCES MAYES I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard ...
FRANCES FARMER That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bot...
FRANCES FARMER I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't sh...
FRANCES FARMER I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
FRANCES FARMER I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After t...
FRANCES FARMER It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had rea...
FRANCES FARMER The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told ...
FRANCES FARMER I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
FRANCES FARMER If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
FRANCES FARMER I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my ha...
FRANCES FARMER But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feelin...
FRANCES FARMER There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
FRANCES FARMER I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love tha...
FRANCES FARMER I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautif...
FRANCES FARMER I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network sch...
FRANCES CONROY 'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's...
FRANCES CONROY I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
FRANCES CONROY Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
FRANCES CONROY Marriage is an exercise in torture.
FRANCES CONROY I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days...
FRANCES CONROY It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what yo...
FRANCES CONROY As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your ...
FRANCES CONROY If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private ...
FRANCES CONROY It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don&#...
FRANCES CONROY Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
FRANCES BURNEY There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect...
FRANCES BURNEY I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history ...
FRANCES BURNEY We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't a...
FRANCES BURNEY The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
FRANCES BURNEY People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one fea...
FRANCES BURNEY To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I r...
FRANCES BURNEY A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment...
FRANCES BURNEY Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudent...
FRANCES BEINECKE I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw...
FRANCES BEINECKE When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
FRANCES BEINECKE We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food t...
FRANCES BEINECKE Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air sa...
FRANCES BEINECKE The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climat...
FRANCES BEINECKE Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt c...
FRANCES BEINECKE I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian...
FRANCES BEINECKE Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatur...
FRANCES BEINECKE When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
FRANCES BEINECKE The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduc...
FRANCES BEINECKE