Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.
If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules. '
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
You mean in the state?
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
We did have three go to the YMCA.
Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.
How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?
We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.
Grammar is. . . the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.