#lot

Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it. “But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6) ↗

— Jay Rayner

#apron #courses #crucial-points #cutlery #deafening-moments

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#around #big #big family #children #definitely

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#because #celebrities #complete #complete control #control

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#block #couple #every #grave #i

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#fattest #guy #lot #things #winner

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years. ↗

— Bobby Knight

#any #basketball #been #coaches #cooperative

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it. ↗

— George Thorogood

#here #how #made #never #now

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#i #lot #much #quicker #swim

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that. ↗

— Don Knotts

#began #beginning #fact #first #had