Banning Quote by Mary Pilon Download Open image “Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.” — Mary Pilon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banning Ludicrous Proposition Sports
Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing. — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Sport is something that cannot be rejected even in a closed society. — Antonio Inoki Copy Share Image
Look at the growing number of people that want to ban football. Or ban anything that might hurt somebody. Too violent or too brutal… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did it and… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
We need to wake up to idea that you cannot treat sport on equal terms with other parts of the economy. — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
Football is an American sport. Everyone loves it. I certainly would never want to ban football. — Ann McKee Copy Share Image
I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my brother and… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book,… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As the issue of youth fitness - from obesity to proper exercise regimens - takes on more resonance in schools and communities across the… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle in 'Tetris' is time and one's own ability to navigate it - kind of like life itself. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
“I'm sure the only act that sells more books than a good banning is a good burning.” — Pansy Schneider-Horst Copy Share Image
I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would… — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It's become fashionable to try to ban words we're uncomfortable with, which you really can't do… — Andrew Heller Copy Share Image
For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered… — Lisa Morton Copy Share Image
Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. — Mary Cheney Copy Share Image
