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last updated: November 28, 2023

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
-- Agnes de Mille

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I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.
-- Dennis Quaid

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Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
-- James Howell

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I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.
-- Jonah Lomu

Source : "Jonah Lomu: Wing commander has seen the light" by Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
-- Konrad Adenauer

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“If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.”
“Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our United Kingdom appertains.”

Source : Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.3
“The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.”
“Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.”
“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.”
“It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of that dear old voice in the shadows, the Dark Passenger, nestled snug in the backseat of the Dodge K-car of Dexter's hypothetical soul. That rascal moon, that loudmouthed leering Lucifer, calling down across the empty sky to the dark hearts of the night monsters below, calling them away to their joyful playgrounds.”
“Its not what happens that counts... It's how you react.”
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
“Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes you be a better, happier person, it is a waste of time. If the person cannot make you smile simply by thinking of them, they're not the one.”
“I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.”