"Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins."

-- Jonathan Agnew

#Talking Quotes #Years Quotes #Anticipation Quotes

“Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.”
“While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.”
“Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.”

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1875). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253
“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”
“The only church that illuminates is a burning church.”

Source : "The Monstrosity of Christ : Paradox or Dialectic?". Book by Creston Davis, 2009.
“I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.”
“The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help”
“When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.”

Source : "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.

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