“Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.”
George Raft explaining how he spent a $10 million fortune. <br class="br">Quoted in Mardy Grothe, Viva la repartee: clever comebacks and witty retorts from history's great wits and wordsmiths (2005), page 83 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aZpmpt7ksr8C&pg=PA83&dq=%22Part+of+the+loot+went+for+gambling,+part+for+horses%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hBgsT4HyB4_Y8QPpy-HoDg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Part%20of%20the%20loot%20went%20for%20gambling%2C%20part%20for%20horses%22&f=false
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Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 (1985) American Drag queen
Advocate interview (2015)
Context: I used to get called a horse face. And so I decided to embrace the horse and make it my spirit animal…And now…the horse is a huge part of my symbolism. I gain a lot of power and strength from the horse.
“I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.”
James Herriot (1916–1995) veterinary surgeon and writer
Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer
On the progress of The Wise Man's Fear in "Concerning the Release of Book Two" (26 February 2009) http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2009/02/concerning-the-release-of-book-two/ <br class="br">Official site <br class="br">Context: My book is different.<br>In case you hadn't noticed, the story I'm telling is a little different. It's a little shy on the Aristotelian unities. It doesn't follow the classic Hollywood three-act structure. It's not like a five-act Shakespearean play. It's not like a Harlequin romance.<br>So what *is* the structure then? Fuck if I know. That's part of what's taking me so long to figure out. As far as I can tell, my story is part autobiography, part hero's journey, part epic fantasy, part travelogue, part faerie tale, part coming of age story, part romance, part mystery, part metafictional-nested-story-frame-tale-something-or-other.<br>I am, quite frankly, making this up as I go. If I get it right, I get something like The Name of the Wind. Something that makes all of us happy.<br>But if I fuck it up, I'll end up with a confusing tangled mess of a story.<br>Now I'm not trying to claim that I'm unique in this. That I'm some lone pioneer mapping the uncharted storylands. Other authors do it too. My point is that doing something like this takes more time that writing another shitty, predictable Lord of the Rings knockoff.<br>Sometimes I think it would be nice to write a that sort of book. It would be nice to be able to use those well-established structures like a sort of recipe. A map. A paint-by-numbers kit.<br>It would be so much easier, and quicker. But it wouldn't be a better book. And it's not really the sort of book I want to write.
“Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.”
Richard Crashaw (1612–1649) British writer
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress
“Women are actresses, tuning their part to each little audience.”
John Updike book Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) British boxer and poet
A Proper Gentleman, 1977
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 152
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
As quoted in "Atatürk" in Images of a Divided World (29 October 2006) http://jmilton6000.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/ataturk/<br>Variant translation: Humankind consists of two sexes, woman and man. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies? <br class="br">Context: Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains that the other half can soar into skies?