It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H. L. Mencken
Recitation: by Male by Female
Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
Melvin Maddocks
WrongWouldAlmostLikeRatherThan
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.
Robert Littell
BookSaidRightLightningMarkYour
For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.
Ann Hood
FamilyChurchRememberNothingStuck
I assure you that you will find me as a lover of Castilla-Leon, Valladolid, and Real Valladolid.
Ronaldo
MeYouFindWillRealLover
Having adaptive events televised in the X Games is huge. There are people out there who might want to do this but don't think they can. They can see us out here tearing it up. That's going to help people realize that if you want something bad enough, you can get there.
Mike Schultz
PeopleThinkEnoughHelpYouBad
Acting is very sacred. Anyone who stands in front of a crew with the camera recording their emotions is a brave individual.
Milo Ventimiglia
BraveCameraActingEmotionsSacred
A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.
Louise Penny
GoodCharacterHopeGreatPeopleMe
In high school, I made friends with people in every social group. Or at least that's how I perceived it. I thought they liked me. Maybe they didn't!
Lucas Hedges
SchoolPeopleMeHigh SchoolThought
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Joseph Chamberlain
CourageQualityOthersHumanFirst
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
Joseph Pulitzer
LightAppreciateRememberWillAbove
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
Drew Curtis
LifeWisdomMy LifeDumbRidiculous
Mothers and daughters find in each other the source of great comfort but also of great pain. We talk to each other in better and worse ways than we talk to anyone else.
Deborah Tannen
GreatPainBetterFindComfortTalk
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