The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.
Robertson DaviesComparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.
Robertson DaviesWhen a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.
Robertson Davies