"I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid."

-- Pete Sampras

#Kids Quotes #Guy Quotes #Wimbledon Quotes

“Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.”
“It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.”
“Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.”
“People always ask, "Why jazz?" and I'm like "Why not?" It's kind of like asking Seurat, "Why so many dots?" I imagine if you asked Bjork, "Why the Tibetan bells?" She'd probably be like "That's just what I heard." It's the same thing. This is just the way I see music.”
“Freedom is a universal value.”
“FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. Itâ€™s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. Itâ€™s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: itâ€™s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.”
“There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.”
“I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire.”

Source : "In God's Name". Book by David Yallop, p. 44, 1984.

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