The 3rd Eye

테니스 이야기 (003) - 인용구 수집 시작

책을 읽다가 테니스라는 말이 나오면 모조리 기록하기로 했다.

• [E]ducation promotes health, reduces smoking, raises the propensity to vote, improves birth control knowledge, and stimulates the appreciation of classical music, literature, and even tennis.

from Human Capital (1993, 3rd ed.) by Gary S. Becker (a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics)
　

• Caravaggio
      A great, groundbreaking, prolific 17th-century painter--and also a complete jackass.  Caravaggio had a terrible temper, sort of the Sean Penn of his day.  He got in trouble for tossing a plate of artichokes at a waiter's face.  He was arrested for throwing stones at the Roman Guards.  And during a brawl over the score of a tennis match, he killed a man.  After the murder, Caravaggio fled Rome, hopped from city to city, was arrested, escaped jail, was attacked at the door to an inn, pleaded for clemency from the pope--all the while continuing to paint his great, dark religious paintings.  Finally, Caravaggio died of pneumonia--just three days before a document granting him clemency arrived from Rome.

from The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (2004) by A. J. Jacobs.