"Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers."

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Source : Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

Ian Shoales

#Football Quotes #Player Quotes #Body Quotes

“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.”
“The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.”
“It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.”

Source : Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.209, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret,”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.132, Anchor
“God will arrange every experience in your life to serve His purpose.”
“Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.”
“I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery”
“There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.”

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