Gentle Quotes


[Vignette StoryServer 5.0 Thu Aug 25 14:22:49 2005 The scene at the July premiere of the new movie The Great Raid had the giddy, cultivated intrigue of a Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes photo op--or as close as you can come in Washington. A full hour after the scheduled start, the couple that everyone was waiting for finally touched down on the red carpet. They posed together with practiced ease, a pair so appealing and yet so unlikely that you had to wonder what had brought them together: chemistry or ambition?] Ladies and gentlemen... I'd like to introduce you to the first, great 2008 bipartisan presidential ticket--I'll let them figure out the order to that--Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator John McCain! - Harvey Weinstein


[This was the world of] small ball ... was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. - Ty Cobb


[The root of gentle discipline, Bailey says, is to verbalize the loving thoughts that lurk behind fear-based statements. Instead of yelling,] Get over here or you'll get lost! ... Stay close to me in the store so I can keep you safe. If something happened to you, I would be sad. I love having you with me. - Becky Bailey


[The manager is hopeful of a performance tonight of which the Hibs players who embarked upon that run to the semi-finals of the European Cup 50 years ago would approve.] You still see some of that team around the stadium on match days and they are all perfect gentlemen... Those are the guys who laid the foundations for Hibs being an entertaining, open, passing football team, which is something I try to follow today. It's thanks to those guys that we can try and humbly follow in their footsteps. - Tony Mowbray


[The Jets signed former linebackers Mo Lewis and Marvin Jones yesterday so they can retire as members of the team. Lewis and Jones were released in March 2004 and never signed with another team. They officially will retire today and will be honored at a home game during the upcoming season.] The Jets are proud that Mo and Marvin are retiring as New York Jets, ... It's rare today to have one player play his entire career with one team, and in this instance, the Jets have two and it's a tribute to both gentlemen. - Terry Bradway


[T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle. . . - George Eliot


[Rudolph Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino's agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity. - Henry Louis Mencken


[In any case, she leaves the biggest question unanswered. Hugh Hefner moves through the book in a bubble of graciousness, the perennial gentleman at the continual orgy.] He's the one person who never wronged me, never hurt me, and never treated me with anything less than absolute care... He allowed me to be a child in his midst. - Jennifer Saginor


[He is] a gentleman with a passion for the sport and a respect for his team. Landry is always upbeat, and sharing his joy for the game?he is [an] ideal student athlete. - Terry Meagher


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