John Mallory Asher quotes

“He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves”
-- John Mallory Asher

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“I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die”

“Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

“I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.”

“What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.”

“Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.”

“I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.”

“You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.”

Source : "The McQueen I knew was not a troubled genius" by Alex Bilmes, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.

“If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.”

Source : "Alfred Brendel, A Personal 75th Birthday Selection" by Anthony Holden, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2006.

“In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.”

“Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.”

Source : "The Latest Decalogue" l. 19 (1862)