#though

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#championships #father #fun #gave #good

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#cute #i #japanese #name #ritual

At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#anywhere #attached #audio #been #composer

My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. ↗

— Domenico Dolce

#although #always #been #born #conscious

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#crops #did #farm #farmer #gee

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#any #find #i #i think #lot

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. ↗

— John Donne

#called #canst #death #die #dost

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#character #crying #embarrassing #emotions #end

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#beach #called #checking #cool #cool thing

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#acting #air #air force #becoming #before