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“To actually be possessed or possess someone in a way that is unimaginable when you're a young person struggling about your body and whether anybody would ever want you, that's a huge world and that doesn't shift because you're fifty; it doesn't shift because you're 80. It's a vision of the possibility of claiming the right to dream and imagine an impossible place that you were never allowed to go, but you want the world to have as a possibility in the future.”
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“I know what I've been through in my career, things no-one else knows.”
Source : "EXCLUSIVE Eric Molina on fighting Anthony Joshua". Interview With James Slater, www.boxingnewsonline.net. November 1, 2016.
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“With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.”
Source : Alex Shakar (2009). “The Savage Girl”, p.24, Harper Collins
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“Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995”
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“With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn’t going to work.”
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“IMBECILE!" the chef shouted. "Next time why don't you just put your whole HAND in the food, hey? Yes, your whole hand, or maybe your FACE! I arrange the food on plates with care, are you understanding what I am telling you? It is part of the art form of cooking, yes? A lovely plate of food is a thing of beauty! And then you, NUMBSKULL, come along and put your fat greasy FINGERS all over my plate, and SHAKE the plate, and move my food all around the plate until it looks like pigs' vomit!" "Chef Vlad!" I cried out in delight.”
Source : Kenneth Oppel (2009). “Skybreaker”, p.40, Harper Collins
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“The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.”
Source : Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”
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“Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future.”
Source : James Salter (1995). “A Sport and a Pastime”