"I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way."

-- Jack Dee

#Reading Quotes #Light Quotes #Torches Quotes

“For years, people always say, "Ah, what about the dunk. It's still two points." But it energizes a team. If you're down and you get a monster dunk, everybody gets psyched. "Oh yeah, let's go, let's go." So it was dying down a little bit and guys, I think, they took it upon themselves. They got energy on it and started trying different stuff.”

Source : "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.
“It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.”
“The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?”
“To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.”
“I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.”
“Find things you're passionate about, and find others who are as passionate as you are and will focus on giving you an opportunity to shine and to have your moment where you can be in front of others to show what you can do.”
“I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking..”
“All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.”

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