"Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my pulse to 120. Tying my feet into the stretchers increased it to 180. My maximum pulse was 200. I didn't need a warmup. I needed a sedative."

-- Stefan Kieszling

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“And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.”
“Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast.”
“Trust your first instinct.”

Source : "Interview with Singer, Songwriter Kelis". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.”

Source : Peter Scott (2008). “There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage”, p.105, Penguin
“Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”

Source : Memorandum to Peter van Emde Boas, 29 Mar. 1977
“I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.”

Source : Robert S. Mulliken (2012). “Life of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory”, p.24, Springer Science & Business Media
“Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.”

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