"You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call."

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Source : Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. March 6, 2012.

Drew Curtis

#Games Quotes #Umpires Quotes #Referee Quotes

“Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms, recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.”

Source : Eavan Boland (2008). “Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
“So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.”
“You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.”
“A good dog never dies.”
“Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.”
“... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.”
“Hidden paths can't be walked without moving obstacles.”
“Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.”

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