"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."

-- Curt Gowdy

#Yesterday Quotes #Performances Quotes

“If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.”

Source : Allan Nevins (1975). “Allan Nevins on history”
“You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.”
“If your dream ain't bigger than you, there's a problem with your dream.”
“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”
“One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.”
“I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.”
“One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.”

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