"Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre."

-- Marisha Pessl

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #School Quotes

“As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.”
“It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported”
“Have you ever had sex with a horse?”
“People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.”
“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.”
“Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.”
“Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.”

Source : Chris Laidlaw (1973). “Mud in Your Eye: A Worm's Eye View of the Changing World of Rugby”
“This is the eighth game in the series and when we work on a Mario Kart title, we work on courses and we create them and then we work on them again, and again, and again, and we revise until we come up with something that we think is going to be fun for everyone to play over and over again. So we have a lot of confidence in our ability to do so, but we understand what a tough challenge it is to create those courses.”

Source : "Why Mario Kart 8 doesn't let players design tracks" by Chris Pereira & Jose Otero, www.ign.com. April 3, 2014.

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