quotes about Playbooks

“I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.”

“Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.”

“Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.”

“Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.”

“Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.”

Source : John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.182, Macmillan

“I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I’ve heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.”

“Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.”

“Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.”

“I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.”

“I got off a plane today at the airbase and I met a whole bunch of military folks there waiting to see me, they all made reference to my son and his military service and expressed their condolences. And although it's still kind of an open wound, it gave me a sense of strength knowing they all meant it.”