Entiendo In English Quotes & Sayings

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about. — Kenneth Koch

I won the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters in my late 30s, largely because of my confident driving. — Angel Cabrera

We are happy we soar very high and when we are not we fall into the depths of an abyss. — Amitav Ghosh

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts. — Mikhail Botvinnik

Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, once you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morning, you should have the axe in your hand. When — Hilary Mantel

I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves. — Laozi

The judges' primary objective was to conduct a scrupulously fair legal proceeding that would win the respect of the world. Hausner's goal was to tell the story of the Holocaust in all its detail, and in so doing, to capture the imagination not just of Israel's youth and world Jewry, but of the entire world .

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 121 — Deborah E. Lipstadt

When people realize they're being listened to, they tell you things. — Richard Ford