Car wash Quote by Nicholas Dawidoff

“I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the…

— Harold Brodkey

“After all, this was the place where I’d had my first meaningful conversation with a female, it was the site of a football’s first…

— Weston Locher

“Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and…

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

I was determined to become a footballer, not only because I loved the game but so I could provide for my family.

— Naby Keita

“within that meticulous preparation there co-existed a high degree of expression, always bearing in mind that this is football, that players must think in…

— Guillem Balague

“But you know, even worrying about haircuts couldn't depress me. Because every time I started sinking low, I'd just remember about football. All this…

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

“He was always saying: “Don’t get ideas above your station. Don’t think you’re anything special.” When the boys in their high spirits declared that…

— David Lagercrantz

“I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. It was dark and raining, and I saw more fog and mud in a minute…

— Charles Dickens

“Every morning, therefore, uncle Charles repaired to his outhouse but not before he had greased and brushed scrupulously his back hair and brushed and…

— James Joyce

“I began to watch places with an interest so exact it might have been memory. There was that street corner, with the small newsagent…

— Eavan Boland

“he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body…

— Mark Twain

“But it was more than that. There was an indefinable ingredient, a kind of excitement. It had something to do with history and the…

— Barbara Vine