"We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch."

-- William Cowper Prime

#Memories Quotes #Men Quotes #Sea Quotes

“I'm more of a fantasy kind of person. I like movies. My favorite movie is 'Kick Ass.'”
“I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.”
“Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. Weâ€™re a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.”
“At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe without fear of social or political or religious reprisals.”
“That is simply stunning.”
“Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.”

Source : FaceBook post by Luther Vandross from Aug 29, 2015
“I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not Negroes.”
“I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.”

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