"Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world."

-- Adam Zagajewski

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“Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, "It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ." Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. "He was my model," Churchill said. "I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall."”
“You are worried that the religious Right might succeed in forcing their values onto us? I am worried they might fail.”

Source : Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2012). “America's Real War”, p.56, Multnomah
“That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?”
“It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.”

Source : William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.55, A&C Black
“The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.”

Source : Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press
“You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can't. Because there is no sense. Ask your computer to print out a list of every lie you have ever told. Ask yourself how much of the universe you have ever really seen. Look in the mirror. Are you sure you're you? Are you sure you didn't slip out of yourself in the middle of the night, and someone else slipped into you, without you or you or any of you even noticing?”
“Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good,”

Source : "Manchester United's Paul Scholes retires for second time at 38", www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.
“I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.”

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