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“I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.”
Source : Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 8, 2012.
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“I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.”
Source : Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”
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“People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.”
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“Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and get an image.”
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“At home the very walls lend you strength.”
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“Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing future where the troubles of today will be cured by a tomorrow, and all our losses will be recouped, our problems solved, our lives restored, our people made whole again, etc.”
Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
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“I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.”
Source : "In S.E.C. Fraud Suit,Texas Brothers stand Firm" by David Segal, www.nytimes.com. August 22, 2010.
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“Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.”