#shed

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ↗

— Plato

#among #born #even #found #hero

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. ↗

— George Plimpton

#concept #front #guest #list #masks

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead. ↗

— Abraham Polonsky

#celebrate #dead #finished #happened #holiday

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#i #i can #into #just #learned

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed. ↗

— Henry Reed

#dreams #existed #formed #freud #identifiable

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#accomplished #been #great #great things #humanity

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#concerned #far #money #people #ruthless

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#accomplished #field #football #football field #game

About two months ago I finished a gospel tour. ↗