"Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance."

-- C. L. R. James

#Ballet Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Opera Quotes

“I'm super shy, especially at parties.”
“Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.”
“I dont wish it were easier. I just wish I was better”
“I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.”
“In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the centre of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it.”

Source : "Snow Country". Book by Yasunari Kawabata, 1948.
“I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.”
“Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.”
“The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.”

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