Brian Moore Quotes
After a goalless first half, the score at half time is 0-0.
Moore, Brian. Quoted in The Penguin Book of Sports Gaffes, edited by Geoff Tibballs, Penguin Books, 2004.
Nader had scheduled a rally where he would get 1,000 signatures on a petition to establish his candidacy in one state. Only 700 people showed up. There was an NCAA Basketball Playoff that evening.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in 1976, 1987 and 1990). Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
