#yin

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#barely #beautiful #beautiful paintings #beautiful things #because

No, I love it at Chelsea. I've been here since I was 14, and I'm 28 now. All my friends are here, so I'm going to stay for ever unless Chelsea tell me I've got to go, which maybe one day they will, but for now I'm definitely staying. ↗

— John Terry

#chelsea #day #definitely #ever #friends

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#hesitation #i #poems #saying #sentimental

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#board #doing #go #good #i

There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#examples #good #had #lives #out

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#allowed #attention #back #being #hard

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves. ↗

— John Motson

#good #like #pitch #playing #round

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#basketball #because #championship #disease #i

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#because #best #best way #continues #earth