"The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology."

-- Martin Puryear

#Magic Quotes #Range Quotes #Site Quotes

“Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.”
“Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
“But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.”
“It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.”

Source : "Adieu to an elegant assassin: Stefan Edberg interview". Interview with John Roberts, www.independent.co.uk. June 23, 1996.
“Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.”
“Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.”
“There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.”
“I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.”

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