"I think the body responds to more reps better than heavier weight. As long as I got those reps in three or four sets, it didn't bother me and I could come down on the weight. Teams didn't want me to do it as much, but that's just the way it is."

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Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. July 14, 2014.

Frank Thomas

#Team Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest one to transcendence. Persephone peered dubiously into the bottom of her own glass. In a very small voice (her voice was always small), she said sadly, "I am not drunk at all." Maura offered, "It's the Russian in you." "Estonian,"Persephone replied.”
“Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.”

Source : William C. Dement (1996). “The sleepwatchers”
“It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.”
“If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.”

Source : Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage
“Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.”
“Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.”
“There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.65, Faber & Faber
“In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.”

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