Quotes About Garrincha

#1. It is good to be Compared with the best player [Pele]. But my dad told me about Garrincha's style as he moved forward, went up, attacked and dribbled. Garrincha's style is more similar to Neymar's.

Neymar

#2. [Garrincha] was the one who would climb out of the training camp window because he heard from some far-off back alley call of a ball asking to be played with, music demanding to be danced to, a woman wanting to be kissed.

Eduardo Galeano

#3. The proper way to eat a fig, in society,
Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump,
And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.

Maynard James Keenan

#5. The activities of automobile manufacturers, commercial real estate developers, and the federal government have been far more important in determining patterns of transportation than consumer choice.

Dolores Hayden

#6. You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

Frances O'Connor

#8. I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.

Baba Kalyani

#9. The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.

Charles Dickens

#10. I knew being your girlfriend wouldn't have many perks. I still owe you things."
"You have plenty of perks," I tell her. "You just choose not to delight in them.

Krista Ritchie

#11. The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.

Ilona Andrews

#12. Addie had always considered the holidays an extra-special time of year. Magic hung in the air, and people were gentler, kinder to one another. Differences were set aside, friendships deepened, and people in general were more charitable and happier.

Debbie Macomber

#13. Your body is sacred. You're far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

Muhammad Ali

#14. I felt deeply loved, highly respected by my colleagues and everybody in the world of motorsport.

Maria De Villota

#15. Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.

Alice Herz-Sommer