"Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal."

-- Thomas Boswell

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“Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.”

Source : 1932 New Bearings in English Poetry, ch.2.
“If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)”
“And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.”

Source : "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.
“Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.”

Source : "Daft Punk Bassist Nathan East: Music is His Mission". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.”
“FLYING DOWN SUNSET SMOKING CRACK TRANSVESTITE IN THE FRONT EDDI MURPHY IN THE BACK MOP HAD ME GRINDY AND GRIDDY MARILYN MANSON, I DYED MY HAIR BLUE AND GREW SOME TITTIES”
“I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.”

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