In CBC Newss "At Issue", Oct 1, 2009 edition.
On a French philosopher's defense of Roman Polanski, following the later's arrest in Switzerland and extradition to the US.
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Extreme Championship Wrestling. October 3, 2006
To Mike Knox when he told Punk to "stay the hell away from my girl" (his "girl" at the time being Kelly Kelly).
Extreme Championship Wrestling
“Staying silent, staying away from him… that was the hardest thing I've ever done.”
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Source: The Last Olympian
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
“We trolls say: “Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.””
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 17, “Binabik” (p. 260).
“A mind that has confronted ruin for years
Is half or more a ruined mind.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
Given (2005), Sabbaths 2001
“Refrain from things that will ruin your career.”
Amantle Montsho (1983) Motswana sprinter
"Simply the Greatest" (2020)
“Running away
From the window of a classroom,
Alone,
I lay down among the ruins of a castle.”
Takuboku Ishikawa (1886–1912) Japanese writer
Source: Modern Japanese Literature, ed. Donald Keene (New York: Grove Press, 1960), p. 208
Andrew Breitbart (1969–2012) American writer and publisher
Speaking to the Council for National Policy http://cfnp.org/page.aspx?pid=360
