Kevin Myers
Kevin Myers
Kevin Myersis an Irish journalist and writer. He writes for the Irish edition of The Sunday Times, having previously been a columnist for the Irish Independent and a former contributor to both The Irish Times, where he wrote the "An Irishman's Diary" opinion column several times weekly, and the UK Sunday Telegraph...
failing knows
You can KNOW something yet FAIL to do it!
goal kids ourselves public quickly return role schools view
I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.
chance guys seven side six
(Sophomores) know they have the chance to play. It's not like we've got six or seven guys set on each side of the ball,
We have something for everyone. It's pretty relaxed.
certain complete generally redesign stay
What we are doing is really a complete redesign of the rooms. We generally stay on a certain cycle.
convention steered
We've steered to the idea that the Contemporary is a convention resort.
competition good guys until
We've got guys with good form, but until we get them in competition, we don't know what they've got,
determine game missed perfect respond team
You're not going to play the perfect game you'll have some turnovers, missed blocks, things like that. But we've got to respond to that, that's how we'll determine what kind of team we are.
ball
Can we give the ball to him 100 times (a game)?
country war heart
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades.
thinking skills two
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature....
thinking problem
The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn’t require you to think at all.
wings doubt born
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them.
fighting men pie
No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused! From now on, we fight will for every man out there who isn't getting laid when he should be! This is our day! This is our time! And, by God, we're not gonna let history condemn us to celibacy! We will make a stand! We will succeed! We will get laid!