Tim Cahill Quotes (33 Quotes)


    The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke - Glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run

    As soon as we thought it would really be funny to have a fish for a gym coach, it popped in our heads, she's gotta have a really gruff voice because she's a gym coach. The first thing that came to mind was Brian Doyle Murray and we thought, well let's see if he'd be interested, and he said yes.

    For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to,

    Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

    a narrative story -- one with a beginning, a middle and an end. I used to take miles and miles and hundreds and hundreds of pages of notes, and I still do. But now, about three-quarters of the way through the thing, I can see the structure of the story in my mind.


    I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

    The key to the stadium design is it can't just be about suite and club patrons, ... It needs to be about every fan. Every fan's experience will be better than it is now.

    Our aim is to get into the top six. It's very realistic now and as long as we take it game at a time we can do it.

    An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquillity.

    It's such a beautiful, unique stadium because it's a war memorial and it's an historic building, ... I know the buildings there. We're not going to mess it up. Not on my watch.

    We think this was a move to gauge management and shareholder reaction and flush out other potential bidders.

    The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

    You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

    You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

    This appeal hearing marks a small but important benchmark by which Brazil's criminal justice system will be measured in its determination to ensure equal and universal access to justice and in its desire to promote and protect the human rights of all Braz

    A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles

    (CNN) -- I think I have the best job in American journalism, ... I love what I do.

    A word of advice a person's journal is the raw material. A story is made from these events. Use the journal to craft the story.

    It's good to have a bit of confidence back and we're really pleased to get a result today.

    There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

    For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature -- places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

    The format they decided on was that of a literate outdoor publication. You can imagine the scorn and ridicule, ... At the time, it was supposed that people who went outdoors were not literate. They were mouth-breathers and knuckle-draggers.

    I am just delighted to have finally got off the mark for the season, but as long as we win it doesn't matter who scores the goals. What we now have to do is to get a string of results together. I try my very hardest in every game I play but the goals, when they come, are a real bonus.

    We're talking about this all the time. We take it home with us and we bring it back to work. On the bright side, we get to carpool. She works exactly where I do, and I live exactly where she does.

    If we're going diving with sharks, I count all his arms and legs, and if he's been doing it for 20 years, I figure he knows what he's doing. I tell him, 'Look, you're going to be the focus of this story, Mr. Expert. If I get hurt, you look bad.'

    The travel is difficult on your relationships with loved ones, unless they are coming along with you, which may not be possible.

    My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that,

    It's the best place on earth. The mountains. The river. The everyday scenery is great. I like to see the seasons change. I like to see the eagles coming in. It's beautiful.

    They don't really have a long attention span. It's whatever happens across their eyesight is what they suddenly become interested in. So we tried to cash in on that. These are basically wild animals. They can be having a conversation with Adam one second and the next one just go completely animal crazy. So we try to have fun with that idea.

    Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.

    We're like that anyway. You should hear our dinner conversations. It's a laugh riot.

    I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

    In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.


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