Ferocity Quotes

"Once Ladd had acquired an unsmiling hardness, he was transformed from an extra to a phenomenon. Ladd`s calm slender ferocity make it clear that he was the first American actor to show the killer as a cold angel." - David Thomson ("A Biographical Dictionary of Film, " 1975)

He was a giant figure in American theater. Heroic is not a word one uses often without embarrassment to describe a writer or playwright, but the diligence and ferocity of effort behind the creation of his body of work is really an epic story.

(Tyson confirmed after the fight what some folks in the game have known for years.) I just don`t have this in my heart anymore, ... I`m just fighting to take care of my bills. I don`t have the ferocity. I`m not an animal anymore.

(Minus the game-to-game defensive ferocity, he says, coaches can drop their quarterbacks into the pocket, let them work through their reads and pass.) Everybody is looking for the next guy who puts up big numbers in the pro-style offense, ... If they`re going to go that route and develop a quarterback in that regard, they`re just more likely to go in another direction. ... It`s a combination of things. But at some point, yes, stereotypes do come in.

The ferocity with which the presidential press corps went after the Karl Rove story is startling, but it shouldn`t be surprising.

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices