"Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain."

-- Horace

#Evil Quotes #Pluck Quotes

“You know, I've had my ups and downs.”
“I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. â€œWhich is all very well,â€ she said bitterly, â€œbut the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is â€˜How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hallâ€™.”
“You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.”

Source : Karl Mecklenburg (2009). “Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families”, p.40, Greenleaf Book Group
“I suppose when some people see you on TV, they expect you to be this flamboyant, champagne-drinking stud. But I'm not like that.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.”

Source : Dennis Flanagan (1988). “Flanagan's Version: A Spectator's Guide to Science on the Eve of the 21st Century”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
“I just worked really, really hard to stay in people's faces, so it would be hard to forget about me. I'm just trying to stay popular and do the same thing over and over.”
“Chemistry is all about getting lucky...”
“Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.”

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