A.M. Jenkins Quotes

Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It never occurred to me to wear shorts. I'd look too silly to wear shorts.

When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall.

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind and Walter Camp.

I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves.

I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings.

The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

[Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.

To the extent that we sow love where there is hate and light where there is darkness, each in his or her own walk in life, we can heal, enlighten, and unify.

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

Worst thing about Al Smith dinner : it was another reminder of how far we are from the amity between opposing sides that is needed for effective governance.

I've never met anyone who has changed his mind or deepened his faith because he has been confronted with such angry condemnations.

Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage.

No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate.

I'm not naturally a person that wants to exercise, but I find running is something I can do wherever I am in the world.

I want to have kids. I want to get married. That is still very important to me.

I was such a geek in school.

I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.

Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.

My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27.

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.

I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

If my mum thinks I'm acting like a diva she'll soon tell me off... She'll cut me down to size!

Being a question on 'The Weakest Link,' that was quite a moment.

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.

The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.