"Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experienceâ€¦ many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint."

-- Robert Adams

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“He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee.”
“But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.”

Source : 'The Retreat' l.19 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)
“People think I'm more wild than I am I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.”
“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose.”

Source : Henry Gee (1999). “In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life”, p.96, Cornell University Press
“He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.”
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I'm doing this for me.”

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