"Better the devil you know than the angel you don't"

“The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.”

“I hated the blog hype and how fast everything was happening. It didn't feel natural to me. But at the same time, what's more natural than thousands of people sharing your music because they just really like it?”

“I know I’ve got loads that has never been tapped.”

Source : "‘Gone Girl’ Rosamund Pike On Nailing the Part of a Lifetime (Spoilers)" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2014.

“I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes.”

Source : Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 2015.

“Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.”

“I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.”

“And the mile once again becomes the focal point where it's always been”

“Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.”

Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.48, Penguin