"More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood."

-- Thomas Boswell

#Sports Quotes #Baseball Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.”
“Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.”
“If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.”
“I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered I was wrong. There is something familiar about my old vinyl. Call it nostalgia, but I don't care for the 'purity' of CDs. They have no personality! The crackle and pop of the stylus on a record player as you wait for the music to begin creates an anticipation that CDs simply can't provide.”
“I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.”

Source : Laurence Yep (2000). “Dragonwings: and related readings”
“Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.”
“I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.”

Source : "Central Casting" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 29, 2006.

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