The biggest issue is muscle pliability. That’s what I think the biggest secret to me is. What is muscle pliability? Muscle pliability is keeping your muscles long and soft. – Tom Brady
I didn’t do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands… that wasn’t me. – Solomon Burke
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses. – Susan B. Anthony
I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence – and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I’d always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me. – Tom Bissell
Let me tell you, I’ve never heard a man whine more than Jason Mamoa getting knocked around by little ol’ me. – Sarah Shahi
My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence. – Vano Merabishvili
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice. – William J. Mayo
I was never famous as a kid. That’s the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn’t famous as a kid. – Seth Green
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention. – Sophie Hannah
When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette. – Tia Carrere
But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me. – Sara Gilbert
I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of ‘Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends’ as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn’t stop reading it. – Tariq Ali
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world. – Steve Earle
I don’t even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I’ve had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything! – Warren Spector
For those, like me, who can’t rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid. – Yotam Ottolenghi
I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there. – Stephen Curry
I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player. – Yaya Toure
Strangely enough, I don’t mention my sister too much in my columns because she nags me and says, ‘Don’t make me look foolish. Don’t write nonsense about me. Don’t make jokes about me.’ – Twinkle Khanna
As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I’ve grown up, I’ve decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out. – Veronica Roth
I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare. – Vladimir Horowitz
I find it preferable not to have public opinions about anything. It’s good for me to shut up. – Whit Stillman
When I’m concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew – no matter how loud they talked – if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all. – Sonia Sotomayor
I got ‘Delhi Belly’ and ‘Badmaash Company’ because people from the production house had seen my stand-up comic acts in a DVD that was lying in their offices. It’s been a weird journey, and I think weird goes with me. – Vir Das
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we’d probably go to war. – Stanley Crouch
What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would’ve ended up as one. – Stewart Butterfield