#incidents

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#everybody #exploit #incidents #now #out

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#afar #battle #battles #few #fight

I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#got #i #incidents #off #say

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#compare #example #fifty #for example #forty

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#been #bring #certainly #chess #down

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. ↗

— Harold Nicolson

#great #great secret #incidents #marriage #none

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. ↗

— Michael Palin

#art #country #cultures #drama #genuinely

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. ↗

— Hu Shih

#cornell #incidents #language #led #question

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#contemplation #creativity #days #eat #expression