Words matter. These are the best Passes Quotes from famous people such as Julia Roberts, Alex Pareene, Anita Brookner, Terry Pratchett, Fred, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
In many ways, Tucker Carlson’s a better symbol of the pathetic state of what passes for conservative journalism than even Glenn Beck or the late Andrew Breitbart, to name two of his contemporaries with a much larger following.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence – a lot passes you by – simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Obviously I’m not happy when I miss the passes so I look to get that right. I work very hard on that.
What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
We always talk about experience and maturing, the best thing that can happen to a footballer is the game slows down for them. All of a sudden, they can see things, they can see passes, they can see space, the whole game opens up for them.
In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.
It’s not like I mean to throw no-look passes. I think it kind of happens out of instinct. As I do it, I’m like, ‘Dang, I didn’t even mean to do that.’
My dad reads the scripts and passes them on to me.
Honestly, I don’t feel pressure to live up to anything I’ve done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.
I’m fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There’s something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.
I have a raging temper. I’ll shout and scream, then it passes like a wicked storm.
With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Humans having any kind of sporting chance against hostile alien invaders armed with superior technology – Good luck. If they’re advanced enough to cross the enormous distances of interstellar space, they’re advanced enough to wipe us out without breaking whatever in their physiology passes for a sweat.
I make sure to sit down for at least five minutes a day to just capture whatever passes through my mind.
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Julio Jones doesn’t drop wide-open touchdown passes.
Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?
A lot of passes that I throw, some of them are kind of thread-the-needle type of passes, and I know Year 1 or Year 2 Bam wouldn’t have done that. But you’ve gotta take the leash off the dog. What’s scarier, a dog with a leash walking with a person or a dog with nobody around him?
The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.
As time passes, the actual complexity of our history – even of our own personal experience – gets buried under the weight of the ideal image.
As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you’ve followed, no matter how fiercely you’ve fought the fight, good health becomes harder to maintain. It may disappear overnight or simply dwindle, but with every year that passes, the odds shorten.
The league is interesting because it’s evident everyone can beat everyone. And sometimes things happen you just don’t understand. This might be referee decisions or the running paths or passes of a teammate. It’s different than in Europe, but you have to take things as they are.
If we can’t get a shot after five passes, what’s Ihe use of trying to set up a shot at all?
If Sunday is the Lord’s day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.
I’m pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.
Basketball players want to be comfortable, they want to be lackadaisical, they want to make the right passes and take the right shots.
The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I’ve ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.
I still play my fast-paced style but when the game slows down it allows you to see the little things – the right passes, where to lay the ball up.
I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.
Sometimes I hear fans say that ‘you should play for the emblem on the shirt.’ I play for myself because after two inaccurate passes the fans are already cursing you.
In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through.
College has become a wide-open game – a lot of short passes, quick passes. Then you go to the pros and it’s a whole different ballgame – things are happening faster, the patterns have to be more precise. Getting off the line of scrimmage is more difficult.
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
I don’t do nostalgia. The phrase ‘the good old days’ never passes my lips.
I think NASCAR racing comes down… to going for those last-lap passes, making those risky moves. That’s what makes drivers unique.
If a developer wants to sell something via an iPad app – it’s called an ‘in-app purchase’ – the transaction must go through Apple, which keeps 30 percent of the money and passes 70 percent on to the developer.
To win those big games you’re going to have to complete some third-down passes, you’re going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
I loved ‘Ghana Must Go’ by Taiye Selasi. It’s about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
It’s a strange thing when someone passes away. It’s always when you’re not expecting it that you’re affected by it. When we first started filming, we were filming with existing characters in a location that we’d never been before.
I’m not a Steve Nash or a Magic Johnson who is going to come out and throw 15 assists and do all these crazy passes, that is not me and it’s not my game.
I like to have the ball, to have possession and to play passes, to create chances for my team-mates. I think that is what makes me strong.
I play in a way that means taking risks. The problem is that, from 300 passes, you make one mistake.
Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.
As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You’re actually in a better position if you’re a celebrity because people care.
The road hasn’t always been paved for me. People identify with that. Everybody passes through hard times, and I think that’s part of my appeal – that I have, too.
The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. ‘Carnivale’ required that of me, and it was really hard.
If you have a bereavement in your family, it’s a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It’s part of the cycle. It doesn’t hurt so much.
The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely… And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.
