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“When I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time.”
Source : Source: www.elle.com
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“Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.”
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“Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.”
Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.365, Read Books Ltd
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“I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.”
Source : "Pop Quiz: Travis Baker". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. June 26, 2005.
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“My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.”
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“Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.”
Source : Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.156, Harvard Business Press
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“About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult to come to terms with a life where old and valued friends insist on calling me 'Sir' instead of Don, simply because they think it is protocol. But I have consciously shouldered these burdens because I felt that I was the medium through which cricket could achieve a higher status and gain maximum support from the people, not only in Australia but throughout the world.”