"A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick"

-- John Arlott

#Men Quotes #Sticks Quotes #Knocking Quotes

“I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word,”

Source : "Laura Linney: 'Comedy is a way to survive'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2011.
“Find friends and not lovers; you will win the game of life.”
“Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted”
“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”
“I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.”
“When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit.”

Source : Chuck Liddell, Chad Millman (2008). “Iceman: My Fighting Life”, p.38, Penguin
“Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.”
“Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.”

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