"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."

“Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”

“I dont have good luck in the match points.”

“Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.”

“Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.”

Source : "Cool-head Ted" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.

“The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books”

“I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.”

Source : Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.193, Applewood Books

“What one man can invent, another can discover.”

“We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.”

Source : Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.163, A&C Black