"I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel."

-- Nina Simone

#Umpires Quotes #Swim Quotes #Trying Quotes

“First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.”
“Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.”
“Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”
“With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.”
“If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.”
“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I donâ€™t go along with that. The memories I value most, I donâ€™t ever see them fading.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Apr 30, 2014
“Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did.”

Source : Cornell Woolrich (2007). “Night Has a Thousand Eyes”, p.77, Pegasus Books
“The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.”

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