Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't…

“Every sport pretends to be literature. . .”

— Alistair Cooke

I believe that the sport of football has set itself up to be in a position where it shows itself in the bigger picture…

— Michelle Beadle

When one goes to school, you don't have any idea of what you're going to learn. But as each day passes, you learn things.…

— Carlos Ruiz

I believe sport brings people together and allows them to feel united for a common goal.

— Alexander Ovechkin

I sincerely believe that sport, particularly in the hands of young people, has the power to change the world.

— Cafu

I believe sport has the power to affect change.

— Paul Casey

Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author curses like…

— Howard Jacobson

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as…

— John Green

I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the…

— Richard Ford

“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took…

— Virginia Woolf

There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind…

— Anne Michaels

“They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! The people in this book died over sixty years ago, in the middle of the…

— Connie Willis

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore…

— John Hurt

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner…

— Agnes Varda

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko