"I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves."

-- Thomas McGuane

#Sports Quotes #Passion Quotes #Sea Quotes

“My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest. I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Deathâ€™s note wants to climb overâ€” but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful.”
“Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.”
“I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.”

Source : "Sony fix for glitch has glitch / Security problem could take turn for the worse" by Hiawatha Bray, www.sfgate.com. December 8, 2005.
“Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.”
“Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.”
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

Source : Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.298, Soho Press
“Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.”
“Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”

Source : 'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

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