"No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different."

-- Helen Wills

#New York Quotes #Player Quotes #August Quotes

“Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life.”

Source : Susan Polis Schutz (1972). “Come Into the Mountains, Dear Friend”, Blue Mountain Press
“I don't even do anything super crazy when it comes to eating. The most I would ever do is eat some kind of sushi raw. I keep it real light when it comes to food.”

Source : "Deon Cole on Conan O'Brien's instincts and being chaperoned at a Prince concert". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 1, 2016.
“If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.”
“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”
“Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist.”

Source : "Girls’ Lena Dunham: Women saying ‘I’m not a feminist’ is my greatest pet peeve" by Jane Mulkerrins, metro.co.uk. January 14, 2013.
“The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in yearsthere is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.”
“Iâ€™m half crazy but I know the Devil real. I should know, I signed a record deal.”
“Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.”

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