#ch

I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#away #because #been #definitely #field

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#daylight #film #get #hit #i

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#i #me #myself #playing #she

Time held no meaning as my mind darted in and out of memories. Past and present collided to create a full-sensory collage out of my life: playing hide-n-seek with my best friends Luke—who always cheated by walking through walls when he was about to be caught—and Lucy; Mr. Caldrin critiquing my sketches and offering ideas to make them more realistic; targets changing faces, blending into the same person, their thoughts rippling through my mind like waves. Through it all, a demon stalked me from the shadows of my memories, never quite showing its face, but crouching, waiting. And then I dreamed.... ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#poetic-prose #change

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it. ↗

— James Dickey

#being #caused #destruction #human #human being

Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick. ↗

— Isobelle Carmody

#imagination

Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#career #good #good time #i #iron

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#hard #hard times #muscles #need #oppression

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#beginning #differently #end #feel #film

I've worked with children all my life. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#i #life #my life #worked