Denver Quotes - Page 3

• They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

  Brock Yates

  Swimming, Night, California

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• Everybody was ready to put Denver and Indianapolis in the championship game. We're the same team that went 15-1 last year and made it to the championship game. We're coming from a different perspective now, being on the road playing two tough road games. We all believed in one another, even if no one else did.

  Hines Ward

  Team, Years, Games

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• I love you Denver Beck," she whispered. "I have for a long time." Then she stepped back. "Now it's your turn to decide if you love me.

  Jana Oliver

  Love You, Long, If You Love Me

  Jana Oliver (2012). “Foretold: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.194, Macmillan

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• I fired the nurse the next day because she didn't check out the NFL schedule in advance - just kidding, ... I plan to be in Denver. I haven't missed a lot of games over the years. But there's a bunch I wish I had.

  Lamar Hunt

  Years, Games, Nfl

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• I remember us coming to Denver when Hank was coach and we were up by four touchdowns just before halftime when Hank decided to go for an onside kick.

  Lamar Hunt

  Four, Remember, Halftime

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• John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school.

  Eric Close

  School, Elementary School

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• Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote "these are WMD's" on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Wmd, People, Pockets

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. May 21, 2007.

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• But anyway, I was convinced that it would go away, you know. But the idea was that he was sitting on a flight - you know, one of those sort of fairly long flights, like, sort of, you know, Newark to Denver or something like that - so, you know, a few hours.

  Nick Lowe

  Ideas, Long, Going Away

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Light, White

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything.

  Paul Stookey

  Cat, People, Today

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• I was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

  Carlos Mencia

  New York, Florida, California

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• My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Mean, Fate, Hands

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• I saw the Ramones, early on at a country-rock palace in Denver. They were opening for some record-company band, so the local music establishment, and I emphasize the word "establishment," was there in force, and the handful of us who knew the Ramones were up in front. And half the fun was, you know, not only were the Ramones the most powerful band I had ever seen at that point, but they made it look so simple - that anyone could do it, hell, even I could do it. This is what I should be doing.

  Jello Biafra

  Country, Fun, Powerful

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Voice, Tacky, Fascination

  "Rufus Wainwright: Baroque Pop Idol". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. May 14, 2007.

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• A so-called news organization called the Denver Guardian - which, by the way, doesn't exist - wrote an article and pushed it on social media that said that the pope had endorsed Donald Trump. That's the perfect definition of fake news. It was intentionally designed to deceive.

  Vivian Schiller

  Organization, Media, Perfect

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

  Annaleigh Ashford

  Musical, Theatre, Broadway

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• I was born and raised in Denver, CO.

  Annaleigh Ashford

  Born, Born And Raised, Raised

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Rent Star Annaleigh Ashford". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I'm not bitter at all. I think my memories in Denver are great.

  Clinton Portis

  Memories, Thinking, Bitter

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• I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.

  Garrett Atkins

  Play, Guy, West

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• I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.

  Stevie Nicks

  Running, Hard Times, Ideas

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• I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad just inhaling both of them, and me waiting to get the sports page from him. I fell in love with the craft. I remember being 9 years old and playing baseball in the backyard and coming in and writing little newspaper articles for my dad.

  Pat Forde

  Sports, Baseball, Morning

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• I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas

  Paul Taylor

  School, Vegas, Colorado

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