"When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you."

-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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“Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there'.”

Source : "The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 541, October 31, 2009.
“Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.”
“The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.”

Source : Christmas Humphreys (1969). “An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers”
“I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.”
“Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.”
“The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.”
“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.”
“Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.”

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