"To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump."

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Source : 1989 Of the experience of facing fast bowlers. Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

Geoffrey Boycott

#Athlete Quotes #Mph Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.”
“[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.”
“I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.”
“Don't you realize it's the doing that often gets us into trouble? It's not the doing that makes God happy. It's not about what we've done...it's about what been done for us.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Jul 11, 2015
“Sometimes, knowing when to let go is just as important as knowing when to hold tight.”

Source : Shelly Crane (2013). “Wide Awake”, p.78, Kiss Me Publications, LLC
“My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.”
“There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.”

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