"In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you."

-- Ray Bradbury

#Running Quotes #Book Quotes #Sunset Quotes

“I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.”
“There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.”

Source : Alice Cary (1876). “The Last Poems: Of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.72
“There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.”

Source : Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1999). “A Kind of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete”, p.41, Hachette UK
“Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.”
“Learning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers.”
“When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.”
“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.”

Source : My Mortal Enemy pt. 1, ch. 6 (1926)
“Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.”

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