"Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper."

-- J. R. Moehringer

#Notebook Quotes #Baseball Quotes #Football Quotes

“Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.”

Source : Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”
“When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.”
“Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.”

Source : "Questions for Griffy". Interview with Gary Panter, www.tcj.com. March 21, 2012.
“You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.”

Source : "Revolution as a New Beginning: an Interview with Grace Lee Boggs". Interview with Adrian Harewood and Tom Keefer, uppingtheanti.org. July 22, 2003.
“The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.”
“In country and R&B, there's much more of that division between writers and performers, and that's where you see more of those [crossover] songs, but you don't get a lot of that coming out of the more pop and rock side of things.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.”

Source : John H. McWhorter (2001). “The Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "pure" Standard English”, p.62, Basic Books
“Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all.”

Source : Kristin Harmel (2012). “The Sweetness of Forgetting”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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