"After my father died, we began to live. He was psychotic. He really was terrifying."

-- Terence Davies

#Father Quotes #Psychotic Quotes #Father Died Quotes

“It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.”
“I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.”
“The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.”

Source : Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”
“How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.”
“To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.”
“We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.”
“You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.”

Source : "One more rally" with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2005.
“I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.”

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