"Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!"

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Pain Quotes #Giving Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Look after your wife; never mind yourself--she'll look after you.”
“I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.”

Source : Latrell Sprewell during Press Conference, www.insidehoops.com. October 11, 2003.
“Peter,â€ Ashley asked softly, â€œDo you know what that was?â€ â€œOf course,â€ Peter said, much affronted. â€œA thimble.â€ â€œNo,â€ said Ashley, staring, â€œThat was a kiss.â€ â€œDidnâ€™t it strike you as a little different from other thimbles youâ€™ve had in the past?â€ Peter looked shifty. â€œWell, yes.â€ â€œHa!â€ â€œIt was my first thimble with tongue.â€ Peter told her with dignity.”
“To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live an interesting life outside of writing.”
“The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.”
“It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.”
“You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.”

Source : "Fictional character: Shmi Skywalker". "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace", www.imdb.com. 1999.
“The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.”

Source : "Interview: Rapper Wale Discusses Hustling the Web and His Seinfeld Mixtape". Interview with Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. May 30, 2008.

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