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“To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.”
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“For the time being Scherzer gives Washington a very nice rotation (on paper) with Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmerman, Gio Gonzalez, and Doug Fister, with Tanner Roark — a five-win player with a .2.85 ERA in 2014 — presumably sliding into the bullpen.”
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“Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”
Source : Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.
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“Marijuana, for me in particular, releases my creative juices. It doesn't work well for performing, but for creating nothing works better.”
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
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“The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.”
Source : "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.
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“A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.”
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“Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.”