"I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night."

-- Tom Lehrer

#Night Quotes #Temperament Quotes #Performers Quotes

“When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.”

Source : "Jordan Spieth rambling his way towards golf's elite clubhouse in record time" by Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2017.
“Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other.”
“Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.”
“I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.”
“No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.”
“I want to keep playing at the kind of level where I'll get respect from everybody.”
“Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.”
“The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,”

Source : "Santorum Denies Global Warming" by Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. March 15, 2012.

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