Alastair Clarkson Quotes & Sayings

I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends. — Kate Jenkinson

Except in a very few matches, usually with world-class performers, there is a point in every match (and in some cases it's right at the beginning) when the loser decides he's going to lose. And after that, everything he does will be aimed at providing an explanation of why he will have lost. He may throw himself at the ball (so he will be able to say he's done his best against a superior opponent). He may dispute calls (so he will be able to say he's been robbed). He may swear at himself and throw his racket (so he can say it was apparent all along he wasn't in top form). His energies go not into winning but into producing an explanation, an excuse, a justification for losing. — C. Terry Warner

Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity) — Plautus

She looked up over Pony's shoulder and saw Noel, and Noel saw her - and he strode straight through the basement, over the love seat and up onto the coffee table and over the couch and through Pony and Simini, and wrapped his arms around Mags, swinging her in a circle. (Midnights) — Rainbow Rowell

I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist. — Alex Lifeson

I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love. — Willem Dafoe

The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy. — Jack Kemp

We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth ... — Ezra Taft Benson

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault. — Louisa May Alcott

Carnival is past millennia's way of sensing the world as one great communal performance. This sense of the world, liberating one from fear, bringing the world maximally close to a person and bringing one person maximally close to another (everything is drawn into the zone of free familiar contact), with its joy at change and its joyful relativity, is opposed to that one-sided and gloomy official seriousness which is dogmatic and hostile to evolution and change, which seeks to absolutize a given condition of existence or a given social order. From precisely that sort of seriousness did the carnival sense of the world liberate man. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Fashion is fun, but it's not that important, really, is it? It's important to have other intellectual and creative interests. — Jerry Hall

My sister the nun, who wasn't going to wait for the bishop because she had an eighty-proof hangover, — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire ... but I had gone to a women's college. — Madeleine Albright

I feel like the better version of myself is on paper ... I'd rather have people know me on paper. — Aaron Sorkin