I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.
Melanie Roach
Recitation: by Male by Female
Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.
Jerry Reed
LifeTimeRoadsDownRunGeorgia
The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.
Jenna Wortham
TimeWorldSocietyGenderSpeedMay
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
WisdomPeopleMediocrityAmbitious
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
Amity Shlaes
FriendshipFriendsYouFindDone
We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.
Simon Winchester
TimeStupidThinkTryingPowerful
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
Trofim Lysenko
NatureExperienceFactsLivingPrism
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.
Ron Rash
CharacterFocusWordsEndingStory
Detroit is part of my family and part of my life, my home.
Miguel Cabrera
LifeFamilyHomeMy LifeDetroit
I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.
Colleen Haskell
CareNowCampingDaysSeems
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare
DeathStrokePinchLoverHurts
Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.
Peter Tosh
EqualityDriveDownOppressionSound
Actors know one thing: If you're left just with words, you're in trouble.
Peter Falk
WordsYouTroubleKnowLeftJust
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