“If Rio Ferdinand is worth £120,000 a week, Cannavaro is worth a hundred million a day.”
Fabio Cannavaro (1973) Italian footballer
Eamon Dunphy, on Fabio Cannavaro's performance during Germany 2006 http://www.elevenaside.com/quoteoftheday/
Source: P.S. I Love You
“If Rio Ferdinand is worth £120,000 a week, Cannavaro is worth a hundred million a day.”
Fabio Cannavaro (1973) Italian footballer
Eamon Dunphy, on Fabio Cannavaro's performance during Germany 2006 http://www.elevenaside.com/quoteoftheday/
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Sandman Slim
John Napier (1550–1617) Scottish mathematician
A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise
“Human beings are millions of things in one day.”
Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down
Source: A Long Way Down
Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) American actress, singer, and food writer
Gwyneth Paltrow concedes defeat on $29 food stamp challenge http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/gwyneth-paltrow-concedes-defeat-on-29-food-stamp-challenge-1.2332262 (April 17, 2015)
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007) American historian
Bridge (1903, p. 85), cited on p. 268; Cited in: Best (1990, p. 63).
The Visible Hand (1977)
Steven Moffat (1961) Scottish television writer and producer
Lines written for River Song, in Forest of the Dead [4.9] (7 June 2008)
Context: Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.
“Every day, in every respect, I'm getting better and better.”
Emile Coué (1857–1926) French psychologist and pharmacist
Tous les jours, à tous points de vue, je vais de mieux en mieux.
Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion (1922).