Why didn't you stop rowing?

The slowest rowers, the weakest rowers, are going to get cut from the team.

Stop your rowing, men.

Maybe one of us ought to try to row.

They can only win if they all pull together as a team.

Oh, you old seven times of a son of a gun.

I seek one Doutreval of Dijon, master swordsman.

quot Let us export our oarsmen, our runners, our fencers into other lands.

But too many rules prevent accomplished jazz musicians from improvising.

Good storytelling is crafting a story that someone wants to listen to.

All them fancy clothes and that smart talk don't make you no gentleman.

But the one I like, the really cute one, is the quick, dependable chap .

A good narrative is a great source of soft power, and the first rule that fiction writers learn about good narrative is to show, not tell.

You're just in there, watching the incredible, subtle changes of color in the sky.

The Philippines also congratulates Ambassador Penelope Wensley of Australia for her masterly guidance of the preparations for the Global Conference.

Naturalist means, of course, as opposed to supernaturalist and it is used sometimes

naturalist means, of course, as opposed to supernaturalist and it is used sometimes

And I said to her, What do you think you did that helped him to emerge as this charming, accomplished, wonderful person?

Stromboli the Master Showman that's me and by special permission of the management that's me, too is presenting to you something you will absolutely refuse to believe.

Cognitive apprenticeship is a theory of the process where a master of a skill teaches that skill to an apprentice.

The Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (Dextre), one of the Canadian robotic contributions to the station, is now being prepared for launch.

They paddle faster, and faster, and faster, until they're going so fast that they literally lift up out of the water, and they're standing upright, sort of paddling the top of the water.

Monetary policy is hardly a science, so a good central banker must be humble.

NEW YORK A gift for words was always US President Barack Obama s strongest asset.

They intuitively sense that they can no longer rely only on the absolute security guarantee represented by the United States combination of active and passive support.

He wasn't the only man who suffered in pre civil rights America, and he certainly wasn't the only great orator of the day.

Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight, a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result.

The deal was viewed as the epitome of Thaksin s sophisticated corruption and a betrayal of his proclaimed nationalism, thus exhausting his moral authority and political legitimacy.

At this point, I as a pundit am supposed to come up with my magic plan, my clever scheme for fixing things and putting the world to rights.

The strong, decisive, and deftly timed stimulus policies at the start of the financial crisis did, of course, play a major role in China s quick rebound.

For all their subliminal paid promotions and subtle product placements, corporations are getting drubbed in the main story lines of our popular culture.

NEW YORK A gift for words was always US President Barack Obama s strongest asset. Now it looks as if his words have trapped him.

BERLIN It s when the tide goes out that you find out who has been swimming naked, the legendary investor Warren Buffett aptly remarked when the global economic crisis hit.

Tamerlan, a boxer almost good enough to turn professional, was married to an American Christian woman who converted to Islam and became observant with her husband.

In the wind, in the sea, in the fire.

At home, at school, at play.

Little did Franco realize that what Juan Carlos would build, with the help of a clever young Franco era bureaucrat named Adolfo Suarez, was the modern, democratic Spain of today.

We pay a sincere tribute to the President of the African National Congress, Mr. Nelson Mandela, and his countrymen for their remarkable success so far in their endeavours to dismantle apartheid.

Two in Johannesburg, one in Sydney, one in Melbourne two in San Francisco, one in Phoenix, Arizona.

In a mine In a mine

Cheerio.

Cheerio.

In the circus in Rome.

In my nest In my nest

In a week you'll be feasting in Bagdad... at our wedding.