"But I am more than a name. More than they tell me"

-- Mary E. Pearson

“Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.”
“It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that the inexpressible and unimaginable should ever remain veiled. And so the guilty man, who fortuitously touched on and revealed this aspect of living things, was taken to the place where he began and there is for ever beaten by the waves.”
“Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife...”

Source : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 56
“What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.”
“Nobody makes me laugh like my wife.”
“There's too many people in the world.”
“If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.”
“When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.”

Source : "Dwyane Wade's Off-Court Highlight Reel" by Will Welch, www.gq.com. October 27, 2011.

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