"Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide."

-- Simon Barnes

#Soccer Quotes #Football Quotes #Clubs Quotes

“Stay cool, hang loose, admit nothing.”
“Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Notes From The Midnight Driver”, p.248, Scholastic Inc.
“I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.”
“Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.”
“Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.”
“Life is a state of mind.”

Source : "Fictional character: President "Bobby"". "Being There", www.imdb.com. 1979.
“Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.”

Source : William Peter Blatty (2015). “If There Were Demons Then Perhaps There Were Angels: William Peter Blatty’s Own Story of the Exorcist”, p.10, Macmillan
“Acoustic ecology is the study of information systems: the shared acoustic environment and how species send and receive messages in this shared acoustic environment. What these messages mean - meaning, what are the consequences and the changes of behavior in any species. And it has as much to do with us individually and biologically as it does with the shaping of cultures and beliefs.”

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