Geoffrey Blainey book The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History (1966)
Source: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Geoffrey Blainey book The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History (1966)
“Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.”
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter
Source: Trouble Is My Business
“Some day, perhaps, remembering even this
Will be a pleasure.”
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 203 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
Pete Doherty (1979) English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist
"Merrygoround (That Bowery Song)"
Lyrics and poetry
“We should not play like Australia or India or England — we should play like Sri Lanka.”
Mahela Jayawardene (1977) Former Sri Lankan cricketer
Quoted in Charlie Austin, " Mahela Jayawardene http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/287060.html," Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2007). <br class="br">Quote
“Some days simply lay on you like stones.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Journal entry (20 April 1920); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 6
Sebastian Vettel (1987) German racing driver in Formula 1
http://www.formula1.com/news/interviews/2010/6/10886.html June 10, 2010.
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