All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
Charles J. Shields
Recitation: by Male by Female
The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.
Johannes Kepler
EqualTimes
The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.
Meles Zenawi
MistakeStupidYouPopulationMost
Rock stars, like anyone else, have to show discipline and take consistent good actions.
Jeffrey Gitomer
GoodStarsDisciplineRockTake
Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.
Michael Dirda
LifeGoodTeacherTimeVacationMe
In 1997, Alain de Botton published his book 'How Proust Can Change Your Life.' I was charmed by it. I remember using it in a course on cultural criticism for a graduate class that had a mix of theorists and creative writers.
Amitava Kumar
LifeChangeCreativeBookCriticism
Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs
PeopleThinkBetterInterestingWill
Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life.
Robert Baden-Powell
LifeGoodBestFootballTraining
The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.
Ronnie Barker
PoliceGoSayNothingBeenToilets
When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.
Johnny Depp
GirlFocusPeoplePaintingGuitar
I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?
Donald Pleasence
HeroNowRightPartsAmPhysically
My head was - I wasn't screwed up, but I feel like I was shifted away from my family a lot with this basketball stuff. You have people coming around you saying they are family or whatever. They try to keep you away from your real family. That kind of got me.
Deandre Ayton
FamilyPeopleMeBasketballSaying
My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.
Claiborne Pell
MeOpponentOutGotWellUnion
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