David Allen

“I tend not to look at the prison wall of life, but to look up at the sky, as it is more beautiful and more spacious. Try”
― Edna O'Brien, The Little Red Chairs

“Weirdly, the former Aston Villa chairman Doug Ellis also claimed to have invented the bicycle-kick, even though he never played football to any level and was not born until ten years after the first record of Unzaga performing the trick.”
― Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

“Could professional disappointment have been what made him so bitter, like it did with BT Sport’s Ray Stubbs?”
― Alan Partridge, Alan Partridge: Nomad

“In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape.”
― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise