"It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps."

-- John Arlott

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“How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.”
“Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.”

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.16, Broadway Books
“Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And forever.”
“I commit myself to serve my country.”
“Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.”

Source : "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.
“If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous.”
“To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.”
“As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.”

Source : "Dear Parents: Leave Us Alone" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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