"I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself."

--

Chris Cleave

#Wreckage Quotes

“Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.”
“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”

Source : Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.356, Psychology Press
“I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.”
“The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.”

Source : Gavin Pretor-Pinney (2007). “The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds”, p.28, Penguin
“The sharp employ the sharp.”
“Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”
“I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.”
“I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.”

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