match point

"The problem with athletics is you spend a third of your life not preparing for the other two-thirds."
- Andre Agassi

aquatic tart

VP-Elect

"He looks like he's from the 1950s, but thinks like he's from the 1650s."

put the pen down

"There's a fine line between urgency and anxiety."
- Stephen Colbert

American Dream

"It's called that because you have to be asleep to believe it."
- George Carlin

it is worse

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

- Voltaire

in the fields

"We're all fucking peasants in the end."
- John Lennon

to dwarf

Mussolini's fascist architecture.

disciple

"The best deals are where you squirm a little bit."
- Kevin O'Leary

rock and roll

"Before there was Elvis, there was nothing."
- John Lennon

The Great Compromiser

"A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied."
- Henry Clay

management consulting 101

"Maybe if I confuse them they will agree with me."
- Scott McGillivray

current state of the art

Current brain medicine is like shooting a shotgun at it from 30 feet away. With continued progress,  it'll be like firing a rifle at it from 3 inches away. Then ultimately molecular microns away.
- An amalgamation of the words expressed by Dr. Jorge Soni, Dr Eric Kandel, among others.

earn an MD for free

Here.

dissident

"I break this law in service of a higher law."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

on rock & roll

"The narrative you tell together is bigger than can be told on your own."
- Bruce Springsteen

punch

"If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough."
-  Muhammad Ali

intercourse

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

crisis

"Mid-life is when you reach the top of the ladder only to find out your  ladder is against the wrong wall."
- Tom Ford

gothic novelist

Sir Walter Scott [1771-1832] was the first multimillionaire writer.

routine

"I wake up early to wake up the rooster."
- Norm MacDonald

general theory

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein

emperor

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
- Napoleon

tautology

"Never check an interesting fact."
- Howard Hughes

scandalous

"If you must get in trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont."

victory or death

"Comeback with your shield, or on it."
- Spartan mothers

The most expensive restaurant in the USA

Here. Per person starts at $600.

Japanese proverb

"Once in a lifetime; never again."

bare bones

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

- Ernest Hemingway

her hair was so long she could sit on it

- On Anne Boleyn 

asylum

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
- Carl Jung

The motto of Paris

"She is tossed by waves, but does not sink."

resistance to modernity

"History is about change - those who like it and those who resist it."
- Drew Faust, President of Harvard University

on holding a grudge ...

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

- Nelson Mandela

principle

"Accuse the opposition of exactly what you're doing yourself."
- KGB

how to move to Canada

... here.

it goes both ways

"I'm not voting for her. I'm voting against him."
- Frank Luntz focus group participants

exploration

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
- Captain James Cook

Bullshitshevik

"Useful idiot."
- Joseph Stalin

Routine

"I wake up at 4:30am and begin drawing by 5am."
- David Adjaye

on Tower Records store clerks

"Everyone was a bit of your friend for 20 minutes or so."
- Bruce Springsteen

unwarranted self-esteem

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russell

on misfortune

Baroness Spencer-Churchill:

Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise? 

Sir. Winston Churchill:

It's a damn good disguise!

xièxie

"What you don't wish for yourself, don't do to others."
- Confucius [551-479 BC]

anxiety

Learn more about anxiety here.

shush

"That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. "
- Thomas Hardy

twelve feet for safety

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
- Mark Twain

the oldest UK pub

... here.

why wear socks?

"... when they'd eventually get holes in them."
- Albert Einstein

quaked in the presence of god

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
- John Greenleaf Whittier

simplicity

"If a theory can't be explained to a child, then it's probably useless."
- Albert Einstein