"Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen."

-- Bert Campaneris

#Years Quotes #Play Quotes #League Quotes

“My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet, pineapple-cratered. Though I was born here, I came from the other side of the looking glass, as did Alice, though not alone like Alice. Downtown I saw lots of brown people. Old men on benches. Winks from Filipinos. Sikhs who worked in the fields were the most mysterious brown men, their heads wrapped in turbans. They were the rose men. They looked like roses.”
“That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.”
“We know more about soils of Mars than about soils of Africa”
“Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.550, e-artnow
“Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.”
“Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.”
“My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps”
“Respect people with less power then you. I don't care if you're the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.”

Source : Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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