Eileen Wilks Quotes

Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.

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• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Art
  • You
  • Floor

• There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Money
  • Win
  • Choose

• You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • You
  • Find
  • Saying

• I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Wish

• My parents live in the part of the United States that is Canada. It is so far north that Minnesota lies in the same direction as Miami. They have four distinct seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still More Winter, and That One Day Of Summer.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Day

• We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • World
  • Men
  • Victory

• Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
  • Free
  • Comfortable

• As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Women
  • Book
  • Most

• Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Nature
  • Falling
  • Bother

• Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Society
  • Perfect
  • Surprise

• I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Day
  • December

• My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Family
  • Job
  • Father

• It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Amazing
  • Wine

• It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Universe
  • Crying

• My head's a carousel of pictures andThe spinning never stops.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• Liner notes, Music Bank box set, 1999.

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Music

• The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

  

  Adele Parks
  • Past
  • Learning
  • Letting Go

• The hardest things in the world are being unique and having your life be a story. In the old days, it was much easier, but our modern fame-driven culture, with its real-time 24-7 marinade of electronic information, demands a lot from modern citizens, and poses great obstacles to narrative.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

  

  K. Flay
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Sometimes

• Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Serious