"I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?"

-- Abe Lemons

#Leadership Quotes #Sports Quotes #Drink Quotes

“Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.106, University of Chicago Press
“Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.”

Source : "Adventures on the High Seas". Interview with Demarian Williams, www.scholastic.com.
“I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal, not even a real noise: a breath, a trifle of a sound. You have the same thing in music: if in the score there is a pianissimo marked that ends in nothing. Up thee you can feel this 'nothing'. With an orchestra it is very difficult to achieve it. The Berlin Philharmonic manage it sometimes.”
“The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.”
“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.”
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
“Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.”
“My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.”

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