"Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it."

-- Andrew Davies

#People Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Notes Quotes

“If you play poorly one day, forget it. If you play poorly the next time out, review your fundamentals of grip, stance, aim and ball position. Most mistakes are made before the club is swung. If you play poorly for a third time in a row, go see your professional.”

Source : Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake (2015). “The Wisdom of Harvey Penick”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.”
“Obama cool, but he ain't sending me no free checks”
“When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.”
“[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.”
“She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.”

Source : Francine Pascal (2003). “Sam (#2) and Escape (#26)”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“I think whenever you go through something of that nature, you get to see who's really on your side and who's really there for you. That happened in my case. And it really let me understand that no matter how small of a decision you make, it's going to have a subsequent action or reaction, and something that started out very innocent turned into the tragedy that it was.”
“The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.”

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