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“It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house. It's really, really true. A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream.”
Source : Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.54, Random House
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“The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.”
Source : Joe DiMaggio (2017). “BASEBALL FOR EVERYONE - A Treasury of Baseball Lore and Instruction for Fans and Players”, p.149, Edizioni Savine
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“If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.”
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“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
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“Because I had visited Silicon Valley, I recognized the microprocessor was going to lead the second industrial revolution. We Chinese could not miss that opportunity again - we missed the first industrial revolution already. We put our effort into trying to bring this new technology from the United States to Taiwan. That was the begining of Acer.”
Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
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“Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.”
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“...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.”
Source : David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.163, Vintage
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“Man must choose his world”
