"The less we know the more we suspect"

-- Josh Billings

#Reading Quotes

“After 20 years of racing career the most important lessons I learned is that you need to have the passion and really love to ride your bike every day at the highest level. Also, for me personally, my goal was to always try to beat another generation, to try to beat the sport again. Trying to develop myself even when I was 37 years old.”
“Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat racing is speed not margin. Boat X beats boat Y by two lengths over 1000 meters in a time of 2:54. After exchanging "Dave" from X to Y for "Scott," Boat X beats boat Y by one length in a time of 2:51. From the rower's perspective, the result is that Dave beats Scott by a length. But in Mike's eyes, Scott beats Dave because on the second piece, X was three seconds faster-even though it only beat Y by a length.”
“I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.”
“Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine”
“I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.”
“Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.”

Source : Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.316, Vintage
“The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off.”
“Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.”

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