"Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered."

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Source : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

Orlando Aloysius Battista

#Men Quotes #Fishing Quotes #World Quotes

“The best part is getting to the top 'cause the pain's all over.”
“Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.”
“Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.”
“Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.”
“â€¦words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anewâ€¦.”
“The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.”

Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.
“The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.”

Source : Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press
“When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a sense that God had something for me, something bigger than baseball.”

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