#now

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race. ↗

— Martin Lel

#being #city #i #invited #know

I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#before #course #different #differently #great

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#dangerous #granted #guy #hard #hard work

I know where my game is. I know I'm a power hitter and an RBI guy. I need to get on base for my teammates behind me and just stick with my game. I don't try to do too much. Sometimes when you try to do too much in this game you pretty much can't do anything. And that's pretty much my mentality. ↗

— Marco Scutaro

#base #behind #game #get #guy

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. ↗

— Donna Leon

#anyone #around #best #better #dishonest

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#endure #human #human being #humor #insults

If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#beauty

You know that bank I used to cry all the way to? I bought it. ↗

— Liberace

#bought #cry #i #know #used

It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#book #come #defensive #find #first

A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag. ↗

— David Letterman

#before #consider #demanding #evidence #example