#over

I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here. ↗

— Toby Young

#british #chef #culture #food #go

And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years. ↗

— Robin Yount

#brett #friends #george #good #good friends

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player. ↗

— Robin Yount

#better #better player #coaches #dozens #help

Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose ambush is violent and sudden: the song the cab driver was tuned to, the song rumbling from the speaker wedged against the fire-escape railing, the song tingling from the transistor on the beach blanket. To locate those songs again can become, with age, something like a religious quest, as suggested by the frequent use of the phrase "Holy Grail" to describe hard-to-find tracks. The collector is haunted by the knowledge that somewhere on the planet an intact chunk of his past still exists, uncorrupted by time or circumstance. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#exploration #fascination #holy-grail #music #age

Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#eating-disorder #recovery #age

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you. ↗

— John Fowles

#discovery #enlightenment #youth #age

Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me. ↗

— Christina Westover

#anger #blame #burn #christina-westover #enemies

Before I love you can come out of my mouth again, the front door swings open and Julia walks outside. "We're going to have to set some ground rules," she says. There's more amusement in her voice than anger or annoyance. "Sorry, Julia," I yell over my shoulder. I turn back to Lake and kiss her one last time, then take a step away from her. "It's just that I'm madly in love with your daughter!" "Yeah." Julia laughs. "I can see that. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#this-girl #anger

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#criminal #fact #interesting #into #lied

The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts. ↗

— Rhonda Byrne

#money #new-age #new-thought #poverty #age