John McEnroe (1959) US tennis player
On losing to Tim Mayotte in the Ebel US Pro Indoor Championships, NY Times (February 9, 1987)
Happy Thoughts (2011)
John McEnroe (1959) US tennis player
On losing to Tim Mayotte in the Ebel US Pro Indoor Championships, NY Times (February 9, 1987)
“Let your accusations be few in number, even if they be just.”
Pope Sixtus I (42) pope
The Ring (c. 120).
If "The Ring" refers to the work "The Ring of Sixtus", it is highly unlikely that these quotes are attributed correctly. It is widely believed that "The Ring of Sixtus" was written by a Pythagorean philosopher.
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
I. 1. as translated by William Whewell and as quoted by Florian Cajori, A History of Physics in its Elementary Branches (1899) as Aristotle's proof that the world is perfect.
On the Heavens
“It wasn't that I had to be first in everything, but I should have been number one.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 72
John Wallis (1616–1703) English mathematician
Source: A Discourse of Combinations, Alterations, and Aliquot Parts (1685), Ch.II Of Alternations, or the different Change of Order, in any Number of Things proposed.
Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
Then & Now: Jane Goodall (2005)
Yōko Ogawa book The Housekeeper and the Professor
Source: The Housekeeper and the Professor