Sholem Asch
Memory
@ Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. [Sholem Asch, The Nazarene.]
Shoeless Joe Jackson (1887-1951)
Shoeless Joe Jackson (1887-1951)
Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951), nicknamed "Shoeless Joe", was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball in the early part of the 20th century. He is remembered for his performance on the field and for his association with the Black Sox Scandal, in which members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox participated in a conspiracy to fix the World Series. As a result of Jackson's association with the scandal, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Major League Baseball's first commissioner, banned Jackson from playing after the 1920 season.
Jackson played for three different Major League teams during his 12-year career. He spent 1908–1909 as a member of the Philadelphia Athletics and 1910 with the minor league New Orleans Pelicans before joining the Cleveland Naps at the end of the 1910 season. He remained in Cleveland through the first part of the 1915; he played the remainder of the 1915 season through 1920 with the Chicago White Sox.
Jackson, who played left field for most of his career, currently has the third- highest career batting average in major league history. In 1911, Jackson hit for a .408 average. It is still the sixth-highest single-season total since 1901, which marked the beginning of the modern era for the sport. His average that year also set the record for batting average in a single season by a rookie. Babe Ruth later claimed that he modeled his hitting technique after Jackson's.
Jackson still holds the Indians and White Sox franchise records for both triples in a season and career batting average. In 1999, he ranked number 35 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players and was nominated as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. The fans voted him as the 12th-best outfielder of all-time. He also ranks 33rd on the all-time list for non-pitchers according to the win shares formula developed by Bill James.
Jackson was reported to be illiterate, a charge to which he was sensitive. In restaurants, rather than ask someone to read the menu to him, he would wait until his teammates ordered and then order one of the items that he heard.
Quotes·Quotation by Shoeless Joe Jackson
Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)
¶ "If you build it, he will come."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeless_Joe_Jackson
SHIMABITO Shiori (島人 栞)
SHIMABITO Shiori (島人 栞)
Quotes·Quotations by SHIMABITO Shiori (島人 栞)
独島
¶ 韓国領であるため、独島って言うんですよ.
It's called Dokdo because it belongs to Korea.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes ( /ˈʃɜrlɒk ˈhoʊmz/) is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take on almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.
Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in Strand Magazine, beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914.
All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") and two others are written in the third person ("The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow"). In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.
Quotes·Quotations by Sherlock Holmes
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
¶ Elementary, my dear Watson.
http://thatgul.blogspot.com/2007/08/sherlock-holmes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes
Sharon McCarthy (P.S. I Love You)
Sharon McCarthy from P.S. I Love You (2007) by Gina Gershon
Quotes·Quotations by Gina Gershon
Gina Gershon as Sharon McCarthy from P.S. I Love You (2007)
¶ Which you never had. Gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Gershon
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