#iona

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels. ↗

— Roger Federer

#become #bit #coaching #dad #get

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. ↗

— Michael Caine

#always #any #because #beside #i

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional. ↗

— Michael Caine

#goes #good #i #in fact #much

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it. ↗

— Simon Callow

#ask #back #bbc #bring #decided

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#another #aspect #because #composing #ever

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#clever #contrived #country #does #go

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#alarmed #away #become #believe #chuck

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. ↗

— Albert Camus

#create #live #men #must #point

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. ↗

— Albert Camus

#chord #ears #escape #eternally #even

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. ↗

— Albert Camus

#either #ends #every #heretic #oppressor