Will Carroll
Will Carroll
Will Carroll is a sportswriter specializing in the coverage of medical issues, including injuries and performance-enhancing drugs. Carroll's "Under the Knife" column appeared on Baseball Prospectus for eight years during his stint there as a senior writer, and he also contributed to the site's radio efforts as well as the Puck Prospectus spin-off site. He is the author of two books on sports-related medical topics. Carroll has no formal medical training...
here-i-am wonderland fairy-tale
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
lessons way comfort
But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!
imagination identity might
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
wildflowers
Do you suppose she's a wildflower?
time space imagination
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
flamingos firsts found
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
fairy-tale fairy tales
Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.
noble wealth drink
By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.
time trying might
A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!
harms
You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.
discourage hoped running
We had hoped to discourage them in the running game.
calls continue lines progress slow winds
We've made slow progress all day because the winds have continued. Lines get repaired, but outage calls continue to come in.
call expect gets respect
We only expect it to be hard. You have to respect the game. It could be anything that gets you. It could be the wind. It could be a call (by an official).
equations
God is not described in equations.