What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Recitation: by Male by Female
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
Jerome K. Jerome
TimeShadowWorldEternity
Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.
John McEnroe
PeopleThreeMoreTwoStillMost
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
FatherMeEndDeskNewOffice
I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
Maurice Sendak
ChildhoodBrotherWhoMadeSavior
Clay is not my surface; everyone knows that.
Angelique Kerber
EveryoneClaySurfaceKnows
Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.
Jeffrey Kluger
LoveEnvironmentalYouSmokeYoung
I don't like teaching, because it's so repetitive - especially the beginning of class, which is always more or less the same and has to be carefully done. It's tedious. But I know it's necessary for dancers to keep working on technique.
Merce Cunningham
BeginningKnowDoneClassMoreSame
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Simon Callow
ChildhoodMeInfluenceEscapeBig
Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now.
Simon Pegg
GoodFriendAppleNowOldYears
As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.
Jason Isbell
LifeNew ThingsMeMy LifeNew
I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
Johnny Depp
ChildrenGreatFunPeopleEnergy
Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.
Donald Cargill
GoIntentYourSeriousnessThen
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