Braheem Wynn Quotes & Sayings

I heard a delightful - and possibly apocryphal - story about what happened when the British introduced golf to India in the 1820s. Upon building the first golf course there, the Royal Calcutta, the British discovered a problem: Indigenous monkeys were intrigued by the little white balls and would swoop down out of the trees and onto the fairways, picking them up and carrying them off. This was a disruption, to say the least. In response, officials tried erecting fences to keep the monkeys out, but the monkeys climbed right over. They tried capturing and relocating the monkeys, but the monkeys kept coming back. They tried loud noises to scare them away. Nothing worked. In the end, they arrived at a solution: They added a new rule to the game - "Play the ball where the monkey drops it. — Ed Catmull

When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board. — Dan Heisman

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea. — Frank Lampard

As the sun, revealer of all objects to the seer, is not harmed by the sinful eye, nor by the impurities of the objects it gazes on, so the one Self, dwelling in all, is not touched by the evils of the world. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35) — Swami Prabhavananda

There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11. — Cesar Pelli

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon. — Joseph Murray

Can a man change the stars?"
"Yes William. If he believes enough, a man can do anything! — A Knights Tale

You can always make time for people. The point is, you have to want to. — Katie Kacvinsky

Were technically their security detail. Chen, who was new, — John Scalzi

But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome, — David Ross

A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music. — Guy Pearce

There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses. — Anthony Doerr