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...
self stupidity irritated
When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!
time queens eye
"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"
science names gnats
'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied.
trying causes ill
Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
kings humorous writing
"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
mathematics gaiety
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
alice-in-wonderland-book young alice-in-wonderland-tea
We haven't any and you're too young.
temper
Why, what a temper you are in!
writing zest giving
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!
simple balls gone
I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide
writing ravens mad
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
flames going-out looks
She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
natural alice-adventures-in-wonderland ought
when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural
eggs through-the-looking-glass said
I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.