"There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain."

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Source : "Brit Awards’ television ratings ‘lowest of 21st century’". Alex Turner's Brit speech for Best British Group and Best British Album Awards, www.nme.com. February 19, 2014.

Alex Turner

#Winning Quotes #One Direction Quotes #Drains Quotes

“I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.”
“So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.”

Source : Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.150, Harvard University Press
“To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.”
“We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.”
“All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.”
“Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain”
“I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.”
“Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.”

Source : Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”

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