"Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world."

“It takes great generosity to accept generosity.”

“I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.”

“I would say a lack of sleep is a cause for feeling not so beautiful. On those days, I try to drink lots of water and put on the biggest sunglasses I can find.”

“France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.”

Source : "French football's best quotes in 2014: Zlatan, Barton, Nasri and Rihanna" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. Decemebr 22, 2014.

“Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.”

“I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.”

“But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not was another matter. I found that I was my best or that I pleased myself most or came closest to my goals when I was tapped into something autobiographical.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

“There are only so many skaters like Brian Orser. Nobody is going to just step into his shoes.”