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“Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.”
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“Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation ...”
Source : Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”
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“I don't get too upset or bent out of shape from things that go on on the field. But I think that you always want to try to keep it classy. You don't want to do any stupid fouls, and sometimes - sometimes the game gets to you; people react differently.”
Source : "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015. 
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“What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce.”
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“Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.”
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“If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.”
Source : Elizabeth Hoyt (2011). “Notorious Pleasures: Number 2 in series”, p.88, Hachette UK
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“Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.”
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“There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.”
