Brian D Ambrosio Quotes

#1. Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow ... but I'm still growing!

Edmund Hillary

#2. Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Thomas Carlyle

#3. Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#4. Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#5. Fashion has always been in my life, thanks to my mother and my aunt growing up. I think as I became an adult, my style evolved, and my love of fashion evolved even more.

Olivia Palermo

#6. There is such a quiet desperation and chronic sense of dullness to Helena, Montana, which makes it the most socially grotesque and culturally bitter of any of the capital cities.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#7. In these shallow arroyos
and grease-covered hills,
blowing dust zones,
the Christmas spirit of cotton bales,
fried in butter
and sweeping heat,
life,
spaciously allotted.
Catching our breath,
smiling in silence,
with the lowering sun in our faces.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#8. On the perfect night there is nothing more transcendent or terrifying than boxing. It's the ultimate representation of the guilty pleasure.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#9. Endings are thus formally unappealing to me, more than beginning or ending, in life, I enjoy continuing. Continuing is my only focus or concern.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#10. I never trust a man who tucks in his shirt by choice or neglects coffee in favor of tea.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#11. I've always stressed the value of autonomy for intellectual and moral development. Autonomy provides us with a sphere of discretion which we all require.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#12. Boxing encompasses the very worst and very best of human nature and its beautiful brutality is a marvelous contradiction for a writer. It conjures up so many irreconcilably antagonistic feelings.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#13. Butterflies,
the embodiment of myth,
the articulation of the past,
first for the elite,
then for the rest of us.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#14. For a man to get married and stay married, he must detach from and disavow the three things that bind him to reality: sex, travel, and near-death experiences.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#15. Boxing is beautiful brutality, and the devil is in the duality. Boxing is a tug of war and you recognize the antithetical feelings that are pulling you from the other end.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#16. To be a boxer is to be within yourself, inside your thoughts and feelings.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#17. Happiness is a habit,
it's more than fleeting,
more than a disintegrating lozenge.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#18. I touch the haemanthus blossom in my pocket and feel the wedding band around my neck. They didn't create me. She did.

Pierce Brown

#19. Pay phones,
relics of an almost-vanished landscape,
always a touch of seediness and sadness,
and a sense of transience,
sweaty phones used by men outside maternity wards,
feeding them fistfuls of change.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#20. The stony silence of death,
trapped by the original gravity of our sins,
and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn,
a world where blood and bone no longer matter.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#21. The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs - memories and Canada.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#22. Q: What does the human spirit do after ten days without sleep, and ten days of isolation tempered only by nocturnal threat sessions? A: It dreams up a solution.

Anna Funder

#23. We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#24. Cath couldn't control whether she saw Levi on campus. But she could worry about it, and as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.

Rainbow Rowell

#25. Simplicity matters. Especially when it comes to the muscle memory of boxing. That is perhaps rule number one. Simplicity works. Simplicity is repetition. Repetition is function. Boil function down to one action, maybe two. Left or right. Simplicity. Simplicity is really the hardest thing.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#26. Charisma is a word that erodes stale on the page. When compared with the tangible, flesh experience it tries to label, it falls short. The only way to understand it, is to meet it.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#27. The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Benjamin Franklin

#28. Force, not persuasion, not discussion, is the legitimate instrument for influencing and policing the hockey mind. Fighting in hockey is one of the most magnificent and eloquent displays of refinement in all of sports.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#29. After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#30. Manassa naught,
a padded white envelope
with no return address,
landlocked and antiseptic,
exploited like a gas station.
Beauty
passes through in the briefest of cameos.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#31. Rum is tonic that clarifies the vision,
and sets things in true perspective.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#32. Boxing begins in illusion and ends in real blood and tears. That's what makes it so beautiful.

Brian D'Ambrosio