"My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

#Running Quotes #Kids Quotes #Games Quotes

“Possession is nine-tenths of the law.”
“Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.”
“I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.”

Source : "Simon Hoggart's week: juries are smarter than lawyers suspect" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2013.
“That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.”
“Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (1999). “Cheaters”, E P Dutton
“As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.”

Source : "Shakespeare and me: Zoe Wanamaker" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.
“I would show up at any venue that had an open mic.”
“I don't want to fetishize the past. I want there to be a natural sequence coming out of a synthesis of the ideas and information that I gather together as a result of looking at things that are in the world. I'm trying to bring forward signs or signals based on what I see and my responses to these things. I'm trying to leave a trail that will be useful to other people in the future. It has to do with making something that contains a synthesis of the information, and then consequently to make one's deliberations visible, to allow other people to follow them. That's how I see my role.”

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