A Quote by Frank Deford

All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods.

Frank Deford

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Frank Deford
American - Novelist
December 16, 1938 - May 28, 2017

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

Rachel Brosnahan

In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous for being famous, famous for being infamous, famous for having once been famous and, thanks largely to the Internet, famous for not being famous at all.

Tom Shales

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

Donald Kagan

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor whos been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

Jennifer Grey

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

Jennifer Grey

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

Eric Holder

The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.

Richard M. Nixon

To me, I can be famous in sports. But to me, I cannot say it means a lot to be famous. Being famous is something I don't like.

Caster Semenya

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended family and regional networks that substituted for older clan structures. But those networks have been destroyed.

Fiona Hill

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.

William Baldwin

During my stay in Pakistan, those people who love sports extended their happiness and good wishes to our Indian side.

P. T. Usha

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

Brian Ferneyhough

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

Brian Tracy

Those two pilots that sped 150 miles past their Minneapolis destination have been suspended. They got suspended because they were looking at their laptops instead of flying the plane. Think about this -- everybody else on the plane has to turn off their laptops except for the people flying the plane.