"I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes."

-- Patricia Highsmith

“I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.”
“Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.”
“Our epoch does not love itself.”
“Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.”

Source : Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1875). “English Portraits”, p.91, London : Daldy, Isbister
“When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual”
“After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins.”
“In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.”
“When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.”

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